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hand,N.Y.,1854.$200.  \nNOVEMBER-DECEMBER,1952一Vol.24,Nos.2-3  \n# STRAIT OF MAGELLAN AND\"C.HOORN\"FROM THE BLAEU ATLAS OF 1650...SEE PAGE 53\n\n# THE MONTH\n\nAT GOODSPEED’S BOOK SHOP  \n18 Beacon Street,Boston 8,Massachusetts  \nIEI  \n万  \nNOV.-DEC.,1952  \nVOL.XXIV,NOS.2-3  \nA conversational catalogue of books,prints,paintings,and autographs.Pub-lished nine times each year,from October to June.NORMAN L.DODGE,Editor  \nII  \n# RIVINGTON AND THE PAMPHLET WARS\n\nTN that vintage memoir,Yankee Bookseller,Charles E.Coodcneed writec that wzhen he firct got the urae to 0oGoodspeed writes that when ne nrst got the urge to gointo the old-book business he asked the advice of IsaacMendoza,who said,\"I never knew but one man who failedin it;that was Tom ——,and he drank rum and playedthe races”.If Mr.Mendoza had said“Jim ——”,wewould have supposed he meant James Rivington,\"the Toryprinter”of old New York,because it would have fitted.*  \nRivington,born in London in 1724,was a son of asuccessful publisher,Charles Rivington.For a while Jamesworked with his father and then went into business forhimself.In 1756 he netted £10,000 profit from his publi-cation of Smollett's History of England(then a record——and many a present day publisher would love to have aseller like that).But James Rivington was fond of goodliving,and the Smollett smash made it possible to fly high,which he proceeded to do—and he played the races,andlost heavily.He declared himself bankrupt,though actual-ly he paid off his creditors to the last shilling.In 1760 hecame to America and during the next two years openedbook shops in Philadelphia,New York,and Boston—thefirst American chain stores?—and he billed himself as“the only London bookseller in America”.  \nIn 1773 Rivington(by then confining his activities to  \nTHENew York City)opened a printing shop and became theMONTHpublisher of a newspaper,Rivington's New York Gazet-teer,of which Isaiah Thomas,the patriot printer andpublisher,spoke highly.Rivington aimed to print bothsides of all stories of those controversial times and shortlyhad the opportunity to do so in connection with the tea-actagitation that culminated in the Boston Tea Party of thatDecember.He also printed all the tracts in the famous“Westchester Farmer”pamphlet war of 1774-75—bothsides,Tory and Patriot—in one of which Alexander Ham-ilton made his political bow as an author.  \nHowever,Rivington's professional impartiality.his wit,and,above all,his notions of liberty of the press were toomuch for—of all people—the Sons of Liberty.In April,1775,Rivington's announcement of the forthcoming pam-phlet,The Republican Dissected(in answer to Hamilton'sFarmer Refuted)was answered by the mob eloquence ofa group of Sons of Liberty from Connecticut,who raidedRivington's shop,destroyed the unbound sheets of theoffending tract,and otherwise mussed up the printer'sprivate property.Thereafter,various bodies of Sons passedresolutions boycotting Rivington's publications(of an everincreasing Tory slant)and at the end of the glorious yearof ’75 another mob made another raid that effectivelywrecked his plant and put him out of business.  \nIn January,1776,Rivington went to London,returninga year later to New York,by then occupied by the British,with an appointment as printer to His Majesty,and fromthen on was four-square an organ of the Loyalist cause.The late Victor H.Paltsits wrote:  \n\"After the British evacuation in 1783,Rivington wasallowed to continue in the United States,it is believed onaccount of his apologies and,as alleged,because of secretaid given to Washington's spies during the British occu-pancy,but his existence was worse than exile.”  \nThere is considerable doubt concerning the actuality ofRivington's alleged service to Washington,and apparentlythere was no less doubt about it in his own day,becausehe was forced to close his press and was given a beatingby a 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