[Tod, Thomas]:

CONSOLATORY THOUGHTS ON AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; SHEWING THE GREATADVANTAGES THAT WILL ARISE FROM IT TO THE MANUFACTURES, THE AGRICULTURE,AND COMMERCIAL INTEREST OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND...By a Merchant.

      Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, 1782. [4],68pp. Antique calf, raised bands. A near fine copy. A rare Revolutionary tract, written in part as a response to Thomas Somerville's CANDID THOUGHTS (1781). Tod points to the great economic advantages that might develop for England as a consequence of American independence.