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THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE – A rare and desirable book: Josiah Quincy, Observations On The Act Of Parliament Commonly Called The Boston Port-Bill. blue morocco gilt, 80pp 21 by 13cm., 8.2 by 5.2in. Good first English edition after the American edition issued in the same year. Interesting association copy with bookplates of Thomas Addis Emmet ( brother of Irish Nationalist Robert Emmet) and the Marquis of Landsdowne on marbled. Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827) was the 2nd son of Robert Emmet, physician to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland & as indicated above, elder brother of Robert Emmet. He was an Irish American lawyer & politician. He was a member of the Irish revolutionary group The United Irishmen in the 1790s & Attorney General of New York State 1812-13. The Boston Port Bill was the British response to the Boston Tea Party of 1773. It was designed to secure Britain's jurisdiction over her American Dominions. After it was enacted the Port of Boston was effectively outlawed & the Royal Navy blockaded Boston harbour. This resulted in economic & social hardship. Eventually it had an impact on the American colonies call for Independence, and led on to the American War of Independence (1775-1783). Josiah Quincy was a Boston patriot lawyer. With John Adams he had defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston massacre. In this treatise he argued against the bill, but his efforts were unsuccessful. A scarce item with interesting Irish Associations.

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