Maryland Imprints of the Colonial Period, 1689-1776

editions "of Seven sheets Quarto, in Small-Pica", and the drcumstances attending their announcement and pub-
lication are such that there can be no reasonable doubt that as Jonas Green was the confessed publisher of the
second, so was he the pseudonymous "North-American" who printed the first.
NYPL. HSP. LC. BA. ______________

There are two other editions of Daniel Dulany's "Considerations" which give as their place of publication
simply "North America", and each of these at various times has been confused with the first edition described
above. The most common of these is as follows:

257. [DULANY, DANIEL, JR.] Considerations j on the | Propriety | of imposing | Taxes | in
the | British Colonies,| For the Purpose of raising a Revenue, by Act of Parliament | [Be-
tween single rules the following Latin couplet and its translation:] Haud totum verba re-
signent | Quod latet arcana non enarrabile, fibra.| (Let not my words shew all;| The hidden
mischief cannot be express'd.) | North America:|

8vo. [A]-F⁴; 24 leaves; pages [MI], [i]-ii, [5]-47, [48]; pp. [I]: title; pp. [i]-ii: The | Preface.| with head-piece
and at end the one word "Virginia" without date; pp. [51-41: text with head-piece and heading: Considerations,
&c.j; pp. 42-47: Appendix.]; p. 47: "Finis"; p. [48]: blank but in most copies has a slip pasted on it commending
the book.

Leaf measures: 8 J x 5 inches. Type page, p. 6: 175 x 91 mm.

The printer and place of publication of this edition are unknown. It is the leas t rare of all the secretly printed
editions of the pamphlet, and it has been assumed to be the first edition by persons who must have been ignorant
of the existence of the small quarto edition ascribed above to the Annapolis press of Jonas Green. Good internal
evidence that this was one of the later editions, however, is found in the circumstance that throughout wherever
a Latin sentence or phrase is quoted, as on the title-page, it has been rendered into English. The punctuation too
is more profuse than in the Green editions. In general, of course, a copy containing additions to the text not in
another copy is presumably of later date and has been edited. One makes a suggestion as to printer and place of
publication of this edition with some hesitation, but such a suggestion may help to a solution. In the Pennsyl-
vania Gazette for Dec. 5 and 12, 1765, appeared advertisements of an edition of the "Considerations" for sale by
the printers in which the Latin couplet of the title was translated exactly as on the title-page given above. This
of course is not conclusive evidence that Franklin and Hall were the printers of this Edition, as they may simply
have been advertising the edition of another printer. Apparently not knowing of this advertisement, Hildeburn
leaves the question of a Philadelphia edition open, and in his Collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the
Curtis Publishing Company. Phila. 1918, William J. Campbell follows Hildeburn.

Most copies of this edition seen by the compiler have a printed slip pasted on the blank page [48] which has
been identified by the Library of Congress as "containing extracts from the Newport Mercury of Feb. 17 and
March 3,1766, relating to this pamphlet." (See printed Library of Congress card, 7-18396 Revised.)

A possible clue to identification which the compiler has not been able to follow to his satisfaction is typo-
graphical in its character, and is to be found in the peculiar form of the lower case "b", which has a flat serif ex-
tending entirely across the ascending stroke. This unusual letter is used throughout the pamphlet.

EPFL. LC. HSP. BA. ______________

A second unidentified "North America" edition is described as follows:

258. [DULANY, DANIEL, JR.] Considerations | on the | Propriety | of imposing | Taxes | in
the | British Colonies,) For the Purpose of raising a Revenue,| by Act of Parliament. | —Haud
Totum Verba resignent | Quod latet arcana, non enarrabile, fi bra. | North-America:
Printed by a North-American.| MDCCLXV.|

8vo. [A]-L⁴, M¹; 45 leaves; pages [i]-9o; p. [i]: title,-verso blank; pp. 3-5: "Preface", with head-piece, and
"Virginia, August 12, 1765" at end; p. 6: blank; pp. 7-78: text, with head-piece and heading, "Considerations,
&c."; pp. 79-90: "Appendix.", with head-piece; p. 90: "The End"; tail-piece; remaining leaves cut away by
original binder.

The compiler knows of only one copy of this edition; namely, that which was purchased by a descendant of
the Dulany family, Mrs. W. Howard White, of Baltimore, at the sale of the late Dr. Ridgely B. Warfield's library,
Baltimore 1920. This edition also bears internal evidence of being a later edition than that which has been de-
scribed here as the first, inasmuch as on page 32, appended to the note which begins "It is asserted in the pam-
phlet, entitled, The Claim of the Colonies, &c.", there is an "N. B." in which an unknown editor comments at

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