Reading and Radicalization: Print, Politics, and the American Revolution

Figure 4.

Nathaniel Ames's Almanack for 1774, printed by Edes and Gill a few weeks after the destruction of tea in Boston harbor in December 1773 (an event commemorated on this page), included an interlineated advertisement for "Lock's Essay on Government." Ames read, annotated, discussed, and loaned friends his copy of the Edes and Gill edition of Locke's Second Treatise (now held by the Library Company of Philadelphia). Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.