POWNALL, Thomas (1722-1805). Principles of Polity, being the Grounds and Reasons of Civil Empire . London: Edward Owen, 1752. 4° (236 x 185mm). Errata leaf at end. 18th-century calf, spine gilt in compartments (hinges repaired, discreet repairs to covers). Provenance : Spencer (Althorp bookplate and shelf-label, inventory no.1089). First edition and the first published work of Pownall, later Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. In America Pownall joined his close friend, Benjamin Franklin in combatting French aggression and was called by John Adams "the most constitutional and national Governor ... who ever represented the crown in this province." He remained a staunch friend to the American colonies on his return to England, and endowed a professorship of law at Harvard after the Revolution. This work, published the year before he first set sail for America, deals with the relationship between a subject and the Government, a topic which was soon of great concern to him as an administrator of British government in colonial America.
POWNALL, Thomas (1722-1805). Principles of Polity, being the Grounds and Reasons of Civil Empire . London: Edward Owen, 1752. 4° (236 x 185mm). Errata leaf at end. 18th-century calf, spine gilt in compartments (hinges repaired, discreet repairs to covers). Provenance : Spencer (Althorp bookplate and shelf-label, inventory no.1089). First edition and the first published work of Pownall, later Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. In America Pownall joined his close friend, Benjamin Franklin in combatting French aggression and was called by John Adams "the most constitutional and national Governor ... who ever represented the crown in this province." He remained a staunch friend to the American colonies on his return to England, and endowed a professorship of law at Harvard after the Revolution. This work, published the year before he first set sail for America, deals with the relationship between a subject and the Government, a topic which was soon of great concern to him as an administrator of British government in colonial America.
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