American Revolutionary War.- [Cartwright (Edmund)] The Prince of Peace; and other Poems, first edition, half-title, title with large oval engraved vignette by C. Grignion after William Hamilton depicting two Native Americans attacking a man and woman, spotted, some staining or soiling, lightly browned, disbound, 4to, Printed for J. Murray, 1779.
⁂ Rare in commerce. The poem 'The Prince of Peace' (pp.7-16) deplores the War of Independence and the employment of Native Americans by the British forces. Cartwright (1743-1823) was an English inventor (the power loom), who was brother of the political reformer and radical Major John Cartwright and George Cartwright, trader and explorer in Newfoundland.
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