Considerations On The Present Situation Of Great Britain And The United States Of North America With A View To Their Future Commercial Connections

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Second edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Contemporary half brown leather over brown and tan marbled boards,. 21.5x13x2.2 cm. John Stockdale. London. 1784. xxxiv, 274, 36 pages. Good condition, spine worn, joints beginning to split, cover foredge bumped, light foxing to preliminaries, small library label to pastedown. Pages tanned with some foxing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the Duke of Richmond, but not signed. A treatise promoting free trade between the United States and Britain in the post revolutionary war era. Champion was an associate of Edmund Burke. He was a porcelain manufacturer and deputy paymaster-general of his majesty’s forces who later emigrated to the United States. weight: 1.0 lb.