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Boston: James W. Burditt, 1810. iv, [5]-192 pp. Disbound, light rubberstamp, else Very Good. The second edition of the definitive work on Shays' Rebellion, a signal event in creating support for the Constitution's promise of a stronger national government. In August and September 1786 financially strapped western Massachusetts farmers, whose pleas for the issuance of paper money had gone unheeded, forced the Court of Common Pleas, and then the Supreme Court at Springfield, to adjourn. Shays led the insurgents' charge on the Springfield Armory in January 1787, but they were beaten back. The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were thus exposed; the Rebellion spurred adoption of the Constitution. Minot was a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a prominent lawyer and judge. Howes M651. Sabin 49324.

Boston, Mass: James W. Burditt & Co.) J. Burditt, Printer, 1810. Second Edition. Leather-bound. Good. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, with later contrasting brick-red spine label, titled in gilt,and (spine) triple-ruled in gilt. Rubbing to extremes. Recent professional hinge repair. Binding sound. Endpapers and title page browned, Moderate foxing throughout, but not to obscure. Biopredation to last blank, at edges. [iv]192 (1) p. An account of Shay's Rebellion by a knowledgeable observer who understood & sympathized with the rebels, but who could not in the last analysis condone the rebellion. Valuable contemporary history. Minot was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sabin 49324;. Daniel Shays was a Revolutionary war hero who fought at Bunker Hill, then distinguished himself at Saratoga, and Stony Point. After the Revolution rural communities were particularly hard hit by deflation, credit contractions, and hard currency shortages, particularly when the state government… Read More

Boston: James W. Burditt & Co., 1810. Second edition. Hardcover. Good+. Contemporary plain paper boards, cloth backstrip, paper spine label; 8vo (230x145mm); pp. [i]-iv, [5]-192; collates complete. Front board, FFEP, and front flyleaf detached; some light foxing throughout. An excellent candidate for rebinding, with an interesting provenance: ownership signature on (detached) FFEP, of Stephen M. [Minot] Weld (1806-1867), scion of the Weld Family of Boston, was a schoolmaster, real estate investor (Harvard's Weld Hall is named for him), and politician (elected twice to the Massachusetts Governor's Council, and a presidential elector for the Abraham Lincoln ticket in 1864); and also including his 19th-century (Jamaica Plain) bookplate on the front paste-down. Later bookplate of John Spargo (1876-1966), an expert in the history and crafts of Vermont, an early biographer of Karl Marx, and one of the leading public intellectuals affiliated with the Socialist Party of America during the… Read More

Boston: Burditt, 1810. Second edition. Tall 8vo, pp. iv, 192. Bound in original linen backed boards (the linen is well worn, some foxing and soiling, names on front endpaper, a good copy. scarce. Howes M652; Sabin 49324; Imprints 20748. This is a history of the Shay's' Rebellion in western Massachusetts written by one of th founders of the Mass. Historical Society. After the American Revolution, when Continental soldiers had been paid with worthless Continental script and the state government was pressed for tax money, the returning yoeman farmers were losing their land to Boston merchants who had gold or Pounds Sterling. This prompted an armed rebellion which quickly spread to all of the states of the newly formed Confederacy. Because the central government had no army, the Boston merchants hired a mercenary army to put down the insurgency and capture Shays. On August 29,1786, a large group of these disenchanted citizens appeared in force in Northampton under the leadership of Daniel Shays.… Read More