[DEFOE, Daniel].

Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover, with an Enquiry how far the Abdication of King James, supposing it to be legal, ought to affect the Person of the Pretender ...

London: Printed for J. Baker … 1713. 8vo., pp. [2], 45, [1], a very good copy with outer and lower edges untrimmed; nineteenth-century half calf, rubbed. First edition of ‘a heavily ironical pamphlet putting forward obviously spurious reasons why it would be better if the Pretender, rather than the Elector George, should succeed Anne’ (Furbank & Owens). Defoe was prosecuted for this and two other anti-Jacobite tracts in April 1713, having openly acknowledged authorship in a letter to Harley and in the Review. RLIN-ESTC identifies two settings of sheet C; in this one the last word of line 19, page 9, is spelled correctly ‘were’ (not ‘wrre’). Furbank & Owens 146; Moore 248.

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