A word about a New Election, that the People of England May See the Happy Difference between english Liberty and french Slavery; and May Consider well, berfore they make the exchange.
[London].
[s.n.], 1710.
First edition.
8vo.
23pp, [1]. A variant has the second line of the title page reset to read 'about a' instead of 'against a'. Recent marbled papers boards. Leaves browned.
The sole edition of Daniel Defoe's (1660?-1731) vehement warning of the perils that would face England should a Whig government be elected in the imminent general election. A prolific propagandist for the Tory administration from July, 1710 onwards, Defoe engaged in issuing a plethora of pamphlets in an attempt to both bolster the position of future Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Treasurer Robert Hartley and undermine the political forces behind Church of England clergyman Henry Sacheverell (bap. 1674, d. 1724), whose prosecution on charges of sedition had riled the nation and damaged the reputation of the Whigs.
ESTC T70864.
£ 1,250.00
Antiquates Ref: 27125
