Law is a Bottomless Pit, or the History of John Bull
unbound
1794 · Boston
by (ARBUTHNOT, John)
Boston: John Folsom, 1794. unbound. good. 227pp. 12mo, disbound; (last page loose and chipped with some loss of text, light foxing). Boston: John Folsom, 1794. First American Edition. "Both Swift and Pope ascribe this (work) to Arbuthnot...It is an ingenious and lively attack upon the war policy of the whigs; and, if it wants the force of Swift's profounder satire, it is an admirably effective and still amusing party squib." DNB I, p. 535. Evans 26574. (Inventory #: 232419)