JONES, John Gale.
An Oration on the late General Washington, including a Retrospect of his Life, Character, and Conduct, from the Commencement of his Career in the glorious Cause of American Independence, to the Period when he resigned his high Office as President of the United States, and retired to the humble Station of a private Citizen … Second Edition, revised and corrected. London, [T. Davis] for W.
Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.
8vo, pp. vi, [7]–20; with subscribers’ list; a few scattered spots and some light toning, but a very good copy; uncut in modern tan morocco-backed boards with cloth sides, spine lettered directly in gilt; headcap chipped; pencil note ‘Phillipps copy’ to front free endpaper.
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An Oration on the late General Washington, including a Retrospect of his Life, Character, and Conduct, from the Commencement of his Career in the glorious Cause of American Independence, to the Period when he resigned his high Office as President of the United States, and retired to the humble Station of a private Citizen … Second Edition, revised and corrected. London, [T. Davis] for W.
Scarce revised second edition, printed by subscription with a new preface, of this speech in praise of Washington by the English radical orator John Gale Jones (1769–1838).
The speech had been delivered in November 1796 when news of Washington’s resignation reached England, at a time when Pittite illiberalism had culminated in the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act and other abuses of power; it is here edited to remove ‘local allusions and historical facts, being no longer strictly applicable to existing times’, but remains important as a commemoration of ‘the great and eternal principles … upon which the independence of America was founded’ (p. vi).
Sabin IX, p. 325.
