[ENGLISH HISTORY] [PAMPHLET] A NEW TEST OF THE SENCE [SENSE] OF THE NATION: BEING A MODEST COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ADDRESSES TO THE LATE KING JAMES, AND THOSE TO HER PRESENT MAJESTY. IN ORDER TO OBSERVE, HOW FAR THE SENCE OF THE NATION MAY BE JUDG'D OF BY EITHER OF THEM

London: Printed in the Year, 1710. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; pamphlet in a modern binding signed by Ramage of half speckled calf over marbled paper boards with darkened lettering in gilt on the spine; discreet repair to the spine at the top; top edge gilt.; lacking a half-title leaf; [2], 91 pages, [1] page; with anarmorial bookplate on the pastedown.~~A New Test of the Sence (sic.) of the Nation, an anonymous pamphlet by Daniel Defoe in which he satirizes the recent addresses to the Monarch by the ‘High Church' party. At that time the part was strongly associated with the ascendant Tory party, showing that the contents of such addresses are little else than a slight compliment or jest. Published on the twelfth of October, 1710, just after the dissolution of the Whig ministry and inauguration of the Tory. ~~The armorial bookplate is that of Michael Tomlinson of Franche Hall. "Michael had two book plates: at first he used a rather large and ornate coat of arms designed by J. D. Batten (1860-1932); later ... he adopted a quite neat and small cross of Lorraine reminiscent of Nicolas Jenson and St. John Hornby." (The Tomkinson story, edited by Ken Tomkinson [Kidderminster: Kenneth Tomkinson Limited, 1985], p. 36). This attractive plate is the former. (ESTC T56937. William Lee, Daniel Defoe, 172-173 pp. William Hazlitt, The Works of Daniel Defoe Volume I, lxix ). Very Good binding.