WAR IN DISGUISE; OR, THE FRAUDS OF THE NEUTRAL FLAGS

London, printed: New-York: re-printed by Hopkins & Seymour, for I. Riley and Co. [etc.], 1806. 22.5 cm. vi, (2), 215pp. Original plain paper boards (soiled, spotted, some loss to paper), rebacked with a paper spine, chipped at spine ends; long, closed tear to one leaf [pp.129-30]; some old tidelines to lower page margins. Stephen, who was Virginia Woolf's great-grandfather, defends the British right to search American vessels. The text shows the sensibility of British thought which would lead to the War of 1812. Howes S-937. "Apprentices Library Haverhill, No. 7" in ink on flyleaf. Bookplate of the Institute Library, Connected with the Young Men's Universalist Institute in Haverhill, Mass., H. C. Leonard, Librarian, on front pastedown. Several pages with pencil margin notes by an opinionated reader.