Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(BOSTON MASSACRE: JAMES BOWDOIN, JOSEPH WARREN, SAMUEL PEMBERTON)A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment … with Some Observations of the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. Printed by Order of the Town of Boston: London, Re-printed for E. and C. Dilly, and J. Almon, 1770 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; 197 x 120 mm). Etched frontispiece, with final blank; frontispiece with some very light fox spots and just shaved at fore-edge touching the caption only. Nineteenth-century tan calf gilt preserving earlier stab-sewing holes, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, by Bedford; rear cover detached, rather worn at extremities. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. Boston's official investigation of the Boston Massacre, with a dramatic frontispiece. The day after the Boston Massacre, the town meeting pressured Governor Hutchinson to remove British troops to an island in Boston Harbor. The meeting ordered the preparation of an account of the Massacre and began taking depositions, appointing a committee of Bowdoin, Warren, and Pemberton to investigate the event. That committee offered the present Short Narrative on 19 March, which includes as an appendix some ninety-six affidavits of relevant witnesses. The meeting approved the account and ordered it printed, with copies to be delivered to England. Distribution of the Boston edition was at first suppressed, so as not to prejudice the trial of the soldiers, but it was announced in the Boston Evening Post of 16 July that a pamphlet was to be printed "from the London edition." By the next week it was widely available. REFERENCE: Adams, The American Controversy 70-5d; Howes B632; Sabin 80672 PROVENANCE:Hon. J. William Middendorf II (Christie's New York, 17 May 1989, lot 259)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(BOSTON MASSACRE: JAMES BOWDOIN, JOSEPH WARREN, SAMUEL PEMBERTON)A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment … with Some Observations of the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. Printed by Order of the Town of Boston: London, Re-printed for E. and C. Dilly, and J. Almon, 1770 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; 197 x 120 mm). Etched frontispiece, with final blank; frontispiece with some very light fox spots and just shaved at fore-edge touching the caption only. Nineteenth-century tan calf gilt preserving earlier stab-sewing holes, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, by Bedford; rear cover detached, rather worn at extremities. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. Boston's official investigation of the Boston Massacre, with a dramatic frontispiece. The day after the Boston Massacre, the town meeting pressured Governor Hutchinson to remove British troops to an island in Boston Harbor. The meeting ordered the preparation of an account of the Massacre and began taking depositions, appointing a committee of Bowdoin, Warren, and Pemberton to investigate the event. That committee offered the present Short Narrative on 19 March, which includes as an appendix some ninety-six affidavits of relevant witnesses. The meeting approved the account and ordered it printed, with copies to be delivered to England. Distribution of the Boston edition was at first suppressed, so as not to prejudice the trial of the soldiers, but it was announced in the Boston Evening Post of 16 July that a pamphlet was to be printed "from the London edition." By the next week it was widely available. REFERENCE: Adams, The American Controversy 70-5d; Howes B632; Sabin 80672 PROVENANCE:Hon. J. William Middendorf II (Christie's New York, 17 May 1989, lot 259)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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