An oration delivered at the state-house, in Philadelphia : |b to a very numerous audience; on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776 / by Samuel Adams, Member of the **** ********** the General Congress of The ****** ****** of America. London printed, London reprinted for : E. Johnson, No. 4, Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLXXVI [1776].

"Of this oration [never delivered], there was no Philadelphia edition [in spite of its being indicated by title-page]; it was, in fact a London forgery designed to show that the colonies were bent on independence."-- Howes, p. 15. No such oration was given by Adams.

Rockefeller Library copy from the library of Jay Snider with his bookplate.

Rockefeller Library copy bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London bookbinders.