The letters of Valens : (which originally appeared in the London evening post) : with corrections, explanatory notes, and a preface

The letters of Valens : (which originally appeared in the London evening post) : with corrections, explanatory notes, and a preface

Letters of Valens with corrections

London Printed for J. Almon ... 1777

[2], ii, xv, [1], 160 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

L1999F465 1777

(OCoLC)06020607

Authorship attributed by Halkett & Laing to William Burke, assisted by Richard Burke.
Spine title: The letters of Valens with corrections.
Signatures: [pi]2 a-b4 B-X4.
Leaf X2 missigned V2.
The three Burkes, Edmund, William and Richard, all appear to have written for the Evening post over the signature of Valens.
Henry Laurens, in his Narrative (South Carolina Historical Society, Collections, v. 1, p. 22) states that Captain Lloyd, of the British Navy, gave him a pamphlet "written and published by himself, under the signature of 'Valens', in which the war ... is condemned"
Errata: verso of t.p.

Halkett & Laing v. 3, p. 333
Gephart, R.M. Revolutionary America 12958
Adams, T.R. Brit. pamphlets 77-20

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