Boston tea party (6 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: BBC History Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 45. Bound in printed wraps (chipped, rear separate) a good copy. Scarce. Read Dec 16, 1873.

Condizione: Very Good. 21 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

No binding. Condizione: Very Good. Johann Martin Will after Philip Dawe, The Bostonians in Distress. Mezzotint Engraved Print. Augsburg, Germany: Johann Martin Will, ca. 1774 to early 1780s. First state. 1 p., 9 3/4 x 14? in., framed to 13 x 17 1/4 in. This political cartoon illustrates the predicament of the Bostonians, whose port the British government had closed in June 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The intended message of the print Bostonians in Distress is ambiguous. The town of Boston is represented as caged and dangling from a dead limb of the Liberty Tree. The imprisoned Bostonians are being fed fish from baskets labeled "To - / from the Committee of -," a reflection of the aid provided by sympathizers in other towns and colonies. In return, the Bostonians offer a sheaf of paper labeled "Promises." A minister among the Boston prisoners holds a sheet of paper with a quotation from Psalm 107:13, "They cried unto the Lord in their Troubl & he saved them out of their Distress." The Liberty Tree is surrounded by British soldiers and cannon, and some of the soldiers are leading away sheep donated to the Bostonians by other colonies. The British Navy that enforced the port closure appears as ships of the line in the distance.Although few British politicians or members of the public approved of the destruction of property in the Boston Tea Party or the subsequent tarring and feathering of customs officer John Malcom in January 1774, plenty opposed the punitive nature of the Intolerable Acts and worried that the curtailment of the "natural and constitutional liberties" of the British citizens in Massachusetts might soon be turned against residents of the British Isles.The Boston Port Bill and other Intolerable Acts spurred the first meeting of the Continental Congress in the autumn of 1774.This version was produced by German engraver and publisher Johann Martin Will of Augsburg, an independent city in Bavaria, after Philip Dawe's engraving, printed by R. Sayer and J. Bennett of London. Will also produced a series of prints of the major personages of the American Revolution. Print.…

Soft cover. Good. Like most examples, the present image has undergone restoration, including marginal reinstatement of loss, generally not affecting image, but evident in the upper right and left corners. Some soiling. Large section reattached in the lower left with no loss to original image. Size 10.5 x 13.5 Inches. An iconic 1774 American political cartoon by Henry Dawkins lampooning the Tax Act and the Boston Tea Party. This is likely the most important political cartoon issued in the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). It was published after the Tea Party but before the Intolerable Acts. The image is innovative in its use of cartographic imagery, larger-than-life representations of key political figures, and use of allegory. Moreover, it stands out for its remarkable encapsulation of the complex pre-Revolution political environment. Describing the Cartoon Joan D. Dolmetsch, in Rebellion and Reconciliation (page thirty-one) provides a useful introduction to the piece: The action takes place on a map, with the coast of North America to the right, and England to the left. In the upper left a crestfallen Britannia tells the genius of Britain, a winged figure with a spear, that she is distressed by the conduct of her degenerate sons, the colonies. Just below her are two groups, the one to the right representing the chained ministers led by the all-powerful Lord North, dominated by the Devil. To the left are East India Company merchants who complain that the American treatment of their goods, particularly the destruction of the tea at Boston and the general refusal of their goods by other colonies, is ruinous to them. On the other shore Indian Princess America, armed with bow and arrow and supported by her braves, protects the country. Below her a group of Tories lament the loss of their income and political influence as a result of the boycott of English goods. Top right the Goddess of Liberty, holding her pole and liberty cap, and the winged figure of Fame discuss the ardor of Liberty's brave sons, the colonies. The political imagery overlays a vague map illustrating New England and the Atlantic. The map is oriented to the west, with North America in the upper right. Coverage embraces roughly from Delaware Bay to Boston, with New York, Long Island, Cape Cod, and Boston recognizable - thus covering the financial heart of British America. The north shore of Massachusetts Bay is massively exaggerated to accommodate the political imagery in the lower right. The Atlantic Ocean occupies the center, and England is at the bottom left, with the Thames River labeled - if curiously flowing into the Atlantic. East India Company ships of trade carry goods from New York and Philadelphia. Historical Context - The Boston Tea Party By early 1773, the British East India Company (EIC) was in dire financial straits, partially due to competition from the Dutch, and partially due to poor governance. Many of its directors were political appointees with little aptitude for business making them capable of mismanaging even a monopoly. Its investor rolls nonetheless consisted of the upper crust of British society, including various lords and members of Parliament. In order to shore up the EIC and protect their own finances, guided by Lord Frederick North and inspired by the earlier political maneuvers of John Stuart (Lord Bute), Parliament passed the May 10, 1773 Tea Act. The Tea Act was reasonable from a purely business perspective. It allowed the EIC, which already had a monopoly on tea, to sell directly to the colonists without the necessity of a middleman. This theoretically meant that the tea could reach the consumer at a lower price. Except, the Tea Act also included an additional mandatory tax, which in the end raised the price. The colonial populace, already frustrated by the Stamp Act (1766), the Townshend Acts (1767), and the Boston Massacre (1770) responded with widespread protest, particularly in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.…

No binding. Condizione: Very Good. The Connecticut Journal, and the New-Haven Post-Boy, January 28, 1774. New Haven: Thomas Green and Samuel Green. 4 pp., 8 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. This issue of The Connecticut Journal contains a report from Boston that includes the text of a handbill distributed and posted there over the pseudonym "Joyce Junior." In their choice of persona, the Boston Sons of Liberty paid tribute to Cornet George Joyce, an officer of the parliamentary New Model Army of the seventeenth century. Joyce was credited with having captured King Charles I in June 1647. The regicide "Joyce Junior" had made earlier appearances in Boston, including at the annual "Pope Night" in November when rival gangs of boys seek to capture one another's carts displaying figures of the pope and the devil. Another version appeared during the controversies that preceded the Boston Massacre in 1770.In 1774, "Joyce Junior" was John Winthrop Jr. (1747-1800), the son of Harvard professor John Wainwright Winthrop (1714-1779) and the great-great-great-grandson of Massachusetts Bay founder John Winthrop (1588-1649). More handbills appeared from "Joyce Junior" over the coming months, including one disavowing the tarring and feathering of John Malcom in Boston. In general, the "Joyce Junior" handbills tried to portray the Boston Tea Party and its aftermath as the result of principled resistance and not mob action. Excerpts"Boston, January 20."Saturday morning the following was posted up in the most public parts of this town, viz."'Brethren, and fellow citizens;"'You may depend, that those odious miscreants and detestable tools to ministry and governor, the Tea Consignees (those traitors to their country, butchers who have done, and are doing every thing to murder and destroy all that shall stand in the way of their private interest) are determined to come and reside again in the town of Boston."'I therefore give you this early notice, that you may hold yourselves in readiness, on the shortest notice, to give them such a reception, as such ingrates deserve. "JOYCE, jun."(Chairman of the committee for taring and feathering.)" * If any person should be so hardy as to tear this down, they may expect my severest resentment. J. jun.'"The several committees of this town we hear never had so much business upon their hands as at present. Three of them in their several departments it is said, sat late last Friday evening; And the committee of correspondence the evening before."The country road committees we are informed keep a very good look out, to prevent teas coming into town by land. While the night-look-out committees, are equally industrious in seeing none are landed in this and the neighbouring sea ports."One of the tea commissioners it is said narrowly escaped a tarring and feathering one day last week-presumptious men to think of gaining a footing in this town again-so says every man high and low, rich and poor." (p1/c3-p2/c1)"We are informed, that one John Cook, of Salem, skipper of a schooner belonging to Mr. George Bickford, of the same place, accepted of the infamous employment of transporting from Cape Cod to Castle William, the East India Company's detestable tea, saved out of the wreck of Capt. Loring's brig."Mr. Bickford is now a patient at Essex hospital, and we are assured, that a company of natives, dressed in the Indian manner, armed with hatchets, axes, &c. have already paid him a visit; but he being under inoculation, they deferred proceeding to extremities. What punishment is to be inflicted on the Skipper is yet uncertain; but it is judged by the expressions of indignation at his conduct, that he will not escape with impunity." (p2/c1)Historical BackgroundParliament passed the Tea Act to aid the East India Company with its excessive stock of tea for which it had no market. King George III gave his assent to the act on May 10, 1773. The act permitted the East India Company to export tea to the American colonies directly. (See website for full description). Newspaper.…