first edition Woodcut title vignette. [ii], 22 pp. 4to
1714 · London
by Steele, Sir Richard
London: Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition. Woodcut title vignette. [ii], 22 pp. 4to. Removed. Fine, in gray card folder. First edition. Woodcut title vignette. [ii], 22 pp. 4to. The final number of the first series of Steele's journal The Englishman, published just prior to his expulsion from the House of Commons on 18 March for sedition. With Queen Anne's health failing and concern among Whigs that the Tories would back the Catholic Pretender, Steel advocated for the Hanoverian succession in The Crisis (1714). The Tory response, including a pamphlet by Swift, was that Steele's allegations of a "crisis" of succession was seditious, and he was duly convicted. Steele addresses the growing controversy here in the final number of the first series of The Englishman. He would revive the paper for a second series of 38 numbers in 1715. Rothschild 1952 (Inventory #: 308149)