Letter to the Spanish Americans: A facsimile of the second English edition (London, 1810)

Printed by the Stinehour Press in an edition limited to 1,250 copies. A facsimile of the second English edition London, 1810 . Introductory essay by D.A. Brading. Viscardo y Guzman's Letter to the Spanish Americans was a spur to action comparable, in some respects to Thomas Paine's Common Sense in the United States in 1776. In Peru and elsewhere today, after many years of neglect, Viscardo is regarded as a great forerunner of the movement for political independence in colonial Spanish America. Original title page 1799 as frontispiece. Preface by Norman Fiering and introduction by D.A. Brading. Bibliographical note by Burton Van Name Edwards. ix+ i , 97+ 1 pages. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. 8vo..