[Freeth (John)], "J. Free". The Political Songster, addressed to the sons of freedom and lovers of humour, title mounted on stub, occasional light soiling, library half morocco, spine chipping at head, rubbed and scuffed, [Gaskell 42], 8vo, Birmingham, for the author, by J. Baskerville, and sold by S. Aris, and M. Swinney, 1771.

⁂ Rare, ESTC lists 2 copies only of this edition (not in BL). The Bodleian also has an edition from the same year with an additional leaf at the end not called for here.

Freeth was the owner of the Leicester Arms, a Birmingham inn and coffee house (popularly known as Freeth's Coffee House). Freeth would write songs to music based on the events of the day which would then be sung to patrons. The popularity of the songs encouraged Freeth to publish with the first collection appearing in 1766 (also rare with only 1 copy on ESTC). This is the second collection and the first to be printed by Baskerville.