LETTERS TO A NOBLEMAN, ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES

London, England: J. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1780. Third edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" x 5." pp. 101. Half-bound in red morocco boards. Marbled end papers. Front board detached but present. 2-inch leather chip missing from spine. Contains half-title, advertisement leaf, table of contents, letters, and appendix. Missing map. Original collation slightly altered in second gathering: B2, B3, B1, B4. Small hole on last leaf, obscuring one word. Minimal foxing on lightly tanned paper. Sharp print on clean paper. (ESTC T57182) (Howes, 43) (Sabin 26436). Joseph Galloway (1731-1803) was a distinguished American colonial legislator, attorney, and loyalist. Originally an ally of Franklin, he served as moderate delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. When it became clear there was no middle ground between colonists' demands for liberty and British insistence on maintaining total sovereignty, he joined the royalist cause. As part of Howes' army, he participated in the British capture of Philadelphia and became Superintendent of Police of the city. After American forces won the city back in 1778, he fled to England. In exile, he was convicted of high treason and all his property was confiscated. (Wikipedia)

This pamphlet was "written to demonstrate the shameful misconduct of the English generals in the American war" (Sabin).