DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
"America: Declaration of Independence, with Remarks," in The Scots Magazine. August, 1776.
[Edinburgh: Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran, August 1776.]
8vo (205 x 127 mm). August 1776 issue only, disbound from larger volume. Minor soiling.

FIRST SCOTTISH PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, "most probably" according to Matyas. While a number of British magazines reprinted the Declaration in August 1776, none did so much to contextualize it as this Scots Magazine printing, providing both introductory matter and printing the Declaration accompanied by notes of An Englishman. This issue also contains a contemporary 1776 printing of the second part of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, "On the Present Ability of America," first published in January of that year, and a remarkable 16 pages of news from America. Matyas Checklist 76-07.