Advertsement [sic]
Subtitle: I beg leave to take this opportunity of informing the publick, that I have long had in my mind, and have in part compil'd a work ... Proposals, for printing by subscription, a General history of the lies raised and propogated [sic] by the Pr--------y faction, since the year 1753; with remarks; in four volumes, in folio
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 10338
Publisher: Printed by Andrew Steuart
Published: 1766
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Publishers and publishing
Other titles: Advertisement. I beg leave to take this opportunity of informing the publick ...; Proposals, for printing by subscription, a General history of the lies ...
Notes: "Subscriptions are taken in, by the booksellers ... and by the editor, Jack North-Wester, living at the sign of the White-Oak, in Heart-of-Oak-Street." Evans attributes the proposals and another pamphlet (Evans 10339), printed for the pseudonymous Jack Northwester, to Isaac Hunt, author of several political essays attacking the proprietary government of Pennsylvania.

Dated from inscription on recto of American Antiquarian Society copy: 1st of 8ber 1766. Ascribed to the press of Andrew Steuart, of Philadelphia, by Evans.

Although the proposals state that the whole will be published before the first day of October, 1767, there is no evidence that the work was ever issued.

Evans 10338

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2189