8vo (204 × 125 mm.), pp. [iv], 76. Disbound. Evidently sometime removed from a pamphlet volume, with remains of binding material to spine. A very good copy.
First edition of a rather reactionary consideration of Paine’s republicanism which includes notice of the earlier critique by John Quincy Adams. A second edition appeared later in the same year. Hardy was a Scottish cleric, not to be confused with the radical Thomas Hardy, founder of the London Corresponding Society. Their positions cannot have been much farther apart.
Sabin 59081.
£150.00
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