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Important book: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved by James Otis. Third edition, corrected. Boston, New-England, Printed: London Reprinted, for J. Williams, and J. Almon, 1766. Hardcover rebound in quarter-leather with marbled boards, 5.25 x 8.25, 120 pages. Book condition: G+/None, with dampstaining to extremities of textblock, tape stains to edges of the title page and final page, and a few handwritten notes and corrections to margins.
Few pamphlets of the Revolutionary era proved as consequential as James Otis’s The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. First published in 1764 in response to the Sugar Revenue Act, Otis’s forceful argument against taxation without colonial representation helped ignite the political controversy that would culminate in the American Revolution. Widely read and debated on both sides of the Atlantic, the work articulated the colonists’ constitutional grievances and established Otis as one of the earliest and most influential voices of resistance to British parliamentary authority.
