ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND VALUE OF CIVIL LIBERTY AND THE WAR WITH AMERICA: also Observations on Schemes for raising Money by Public Loans; An Historical Deduction and Analysis of the National Debt; And a brief Account of the Debts and Resources of France ...

12mo, pp. xxiii, [1] blank, 260 (pp. 96 - 236 misnumbered 120-260); contemporary full sheep, extremities rubbed, short splits to heads of joints; a very clean and crisp copy.

First Dublin edition, published in the same year as the London edition, of these highly influential and popular observations on American independence. An ardent opponent of the war with America, Price caused great controversy with this publication, which followed on from his earlier ^gObservations on the Nature of Civil Liberty^g and is said to have greatly influenced the strength of the independence movement in the USA. His name became closely associated with the American independence movement, and in 1778 he was actually invited by Congress to move to America and assist in the financial administration of the insurgent states. This he declined, but with the prophetic assessment that he looked 'to the United States as now the hope, and likely soon to become the refuge of mankind' (DNB).

'[Price's ^gObservations^g] are among the best, and were by far the most popular of the tracts on the side of the Americans. Price's reasonings are bottomed on the principle, that in free states there can be no legal taxation without representation' (McCulloch, p. 89).

Also included is an interesting section on financial matters, especially on the National Debt and public loans with detailed figures given.