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Richard Price

(Price, Richard, 1723-1791)

The sitter is shown is his study, reading a letter dated 1784 from Benjamin Franklin, a close friend of Price over many years.Price recorded sitting for the portrait in his short-hand journal. The journal is now in the collection of the Nationial Library (NLW MS 20721A). This portrait is the only official image of this highly important moral philosopher. There exist three versions: this present oil painting, a contemporary version now at the Royal Society and a 19th century copy in the Collection of the National Museum of Wales.
The frame was specially commissioned using funds provided by the Friends of the Library. It is a Maretti, gilded frame in a style contemporary with the painting.

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Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and American Revolutions. He was well-connected and fostered communication between many people, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Mirabeau and the Marquis de Condorcet. According to the historian John Davies, Price was "the greatest Welsh thinker of all time". (From Wikipedia)

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Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution: Selections from His Pamphlets, with Appendices (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1979), by Richard Price, ed. by Bernard Peach, contrib. by Jon Erik Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
Torchbearer of Freedom: The Influence of Richard Price on Eighteenth Century Thought (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Carl B. Cone (page images at HathiTrust)

6 additional books about Richard Price in the extended shelves:

Richard Price, philosopher and apostle of liberty (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924), by Roland Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Pamphlets, viz. Dr. Priestley's letters to Dr. Geddes and Dr. Price, Dr. Priestley's letters to Dr. Horsley, Mr. Barnard, Dr. Knowles, and Mr. Hawkins. 3 parts. ([Pearson and Rollason], 1791), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
An examination of Dr. Price's Essay on the population of England & Wales ; and the doctrine of an increased population in this Kingdom, established by facts. (Printed for the Author by J. Blake, 1781), by John Howlett (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Richard Price ... (Printed for R. Hunter [etc.], 1815), by William Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters to and from Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S., 1767-1790. (John Wilson and Son, University Press, 1903), by Richard Price (page images at HathiTrust)
Vergleichende Darstellung der Ansichten (Huber, 1910), by Albert Jaeger, Richard Price, and Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Richard Price:

Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution: Selections from His Pamphlets, with Appendices (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1979), ed. by Bernard Peach, contrib. by Jon Erik Larson (page images at HathiTrust)

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Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Amerikanische bibliothek (Weygandschen handlung, 1777), also by Christoph Daniel Ebeling and John Lind (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Autobiography (Philadelphia: : Printed for Benjamin Johnson, no. 147, High-Street., M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]), also by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, James Thackara, and J. Vallance (HTML at Evans TCP)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Defences of Unitarianism for the year 1786, containing letters to Dr. Horne, dean of Canterbury; to the young men, who are in a course of education for the Christian ministry, at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; to the Rev. Dr. Price; and to the Rev. Mr. Parkhurst; on the subject of the person of Christ. (Printed for the author, by Pearson and Rollason, 1788), also by Joseph Priestley, John Parkhurst, and George Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A discourse addressed to a congregation at Hackney, on February 21, 1781. Being the day appointed for a public fast. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1781) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A discourse on the love of our country : delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the meeting-house in the old Jewry, to the Society for commemorating the revolution in Great Britain. : With an appendix containing the report of the committee of the society ; an account of the populace of France ; And the Declaration of Rights by the National Assembly of France. ... (Printed by George Stafford, for T. Cadell, in the Strand., 1790) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A discourse on the love of our country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commmemorating the Revolution in Great Britain. / By Richard Price, D.D. LL.D. F.R.S. and fellow of the American Philosophical Societies at Philadelphia and Boston. ([Boston] : London, printed: Boston, reprinted: by Edward E. Powars, Court Street., M.DCC.XC. [1790]), also by England) Revolution Society (London (HTML at Evans TCP)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: The doctrine of annuities and assurances on lives and survivorships, stated and explained (T. Cadell, 1779), also by William Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Experience preferable to theory, an answer to Dr. Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty, and the justice and policy of the war with America (Printed for T. Payne ..., 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Facsimiles of two papers by Bayes. I. An essay toward solving a problem in the doctrine of chances, with Richard Price's forward and discussion; Phil. Trans. Royal Soc., pp.370-418, 1763. With a commentary by Edward C. Molina. II. A letter on asymptotic series from Bayes to John Canton; pp.269-271 of the same volume. With a commentary by W. Edwards Deming. (Hafner Pub. Co., 1963), also by Thomas Bayes, John Canton, E. C. Molina, and W. Edwards Deming (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Four dissertations (Printed for T. Cadell..., 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Four dissertations. (London : Printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767., 1767) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Four dissertations. I, On providence. II, On prayer. III, On the reasons for expecting that virtuous men shall meet after death in a state of happiness. IV, On the importance of Christianity, the nature of historical evidence, and miracles. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1772) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A free discussion of the doctrine of materialism, and philosophical necessity (Printed for J. Johnson and T. Cadell, 1778), also by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism, and philosophical necessity in a correspondence between Dr. Price, and Dr. Priestley. To which are added, by Dr. Priestley, an introduction, explaining the nature of the controversy, and letters to several writers who have animadverted on his disquistitions relating to matter and spirit, or his treatise on necessity. (Printed for J. Johnson and T. Cadell, 1778), also by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A free examination of Dr. Price's and Dr. Priestley's sermons ... with a postscript ... (J. Dodsley, 1790), also by William Keate and Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: H. Goodricke's Aenmerkungen op Dr. Price's leer en grondbeginselen van burgerlyke vryheit en regeering voorgegaen door en brief aen eenen vriend over de vermeende voorrechten der Americaensche volkplantingen beschouwd met opzigt tot recht en billykheit. (By L. Herdingh, 1777), also by Henry Goodricke (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: The Honor of Parliament and the justice of the nation vindicated in a reply to Dr. Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty. (Printed for W. Davis ..., 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Letters to and from Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S., 1767-1790. (John Wilson and Son, University Press, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Lord Monboddo and some of his contemporaries (London : John Murray, 1900., 1900), also by William Angus Knight, George. Baker, Welbore Ellis. Mendip, Allan Ramsay, Dugald Stewart, George Lewis Scott, James Harris, Samuel. Horsley, and James Burnett Monboddo (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on Dr. Price's theory and principles of civil liberty and government ; preceded by a Letter to a friend, on the pretensions of the American colonies, in respect of right and equity (Printed by A. Ward, for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, and R. Baldwin, London;, 1776), also by Henry Goodricke (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt to which are added four essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetick, also an appendix ... (T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1772), also by William Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt. To which are added, four essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life annuities and political arithmetick. Also, an appendix and supplement, containing additional observations, and a complete set of tables ... The third edition, much enlarged (Printed for T. Cadell, 1773) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments : on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt. Also, ... a postscript on the population of the kingdom. The whole new arranged, and enlarged by the addition of algebraical and other notes, ... (T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt. Also essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetic ... (T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803), also by William Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments : on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt : to which are added four essays ... also an appendix ... (Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1771) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt. To which are added, four essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetick. (T. Cadell, 1783) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt. Also essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetic ... (T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1812), also by William Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on reversionary payments : on schemes for providing annuitites for widows, and for persons in old age, on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives and on the national debt : also, essays on different subjects in the doctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetic ... (Printed for T.Cadell, 1792), also by William Morgan and John Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the expectations of lives, the increase of mankind, the influence of great towns on population, and particularly the state of London, with respect to healthfulness and number of inhabitants. Communicated to the Royal Society ... in a letter from Mr. Richard Price to Benjamin Franklin. (Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1769) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, and the means of making it a benefit to the world. To which is added, a letter from M. Turgot ... with an appendix, containing a translation of the will of M. Fortuné Ricard, lately published in France. (Printed for L. White, 1785), also by Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the importance of the American revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world to which is added a letter from M. Turgot, late comptroller-general of the finances of France : with an appendix containing a translation of the will of M. Fortuné Ricard, lately published in France (Printed for L. White, W. Whitestone, P. Byrne [and 3 others], 1785), also by Turgot (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world (Printed by True & Weston, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, and the means of making it a benefit to the world. By Richard Price, D.D. L.L.D. and fellow of the Royal Society of London, and of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in New-England. ([Boston] : Printed in London in 1784. Re-printed in Boston in 1784, by Powars and Willis., [1784]), also by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (HTML at Evans TCP)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which are added an appendix and postscript, containing a state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by taxes, and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war ... (Printed for T. Cadell, 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America : to which is added an appendix, containing a state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by the taxes and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war ... (Re-printed by S. Loudon, 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America : to which is added an appendix and postscript, containing a state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by the taxes, and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war (Printed for T. Cadell, 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America to which is added an appendix, containing the state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by taxes, and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war (Printed for T. Cadell ..., 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added an appendix, containing a state of the national debt, an estimate of the money drawn from the public by the taxes, and an account of the national income and expenditure since the last war. : [Two lines in Latin from Virgil] / By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S. ([Boston] : London printed 1776. Boston, re-printed and sold by T. and J. Fleet., [1776]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Remarks on Dr. Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty, & c. (Printed for G. Kearsley ..., 1776), also by Adam Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals. Particularly those relating to the original of our ideas of virtue, its nature, foundation, reference to the deity, obligation, subject-matter, and sanctions. (Printed for T. Cadell (successor to Mr. Millar), 1769) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals, particularly those relating to the original of our ideas of virtue, its nature, foundation, reference to the deity, obligation, subject-matter, and sanctions. (London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1769., 1769) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A review of the principal questions in morals. Particularly those respecting the origin of our ideas of virtue, its nature, relation to the deity, obligation, subject matter, and sanctions (Printed for T. Cadell, 1787) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: A sermon, delivered to a congregation of Protestant dissenters, at Hackney, on the 10th of February last, being the day appointed for a general fast. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1779) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Sermons (Printed for the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, 1830), also by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Sermons on the Christian doctrine as received by the different denominations of Christians : to which are added, sermons on the security and happiness of a virtuous course, on the goodness of God : and the resurrection of Lazarus (Printed for T. Cadell, 1787) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Sermons on the Christian doctrine as received by the different denominations of Christians : to which are added, sermons on the security and happiness of a virtuous course, on the goodness of God, and the resurrection of Lazarus. (Dublin : Printed by John Exshaw, 1787., 1787), also by Samuel Miller Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Sermons on the security and happiness of a virtuous course, on the goodness of God, and the resurrection of Lazarus : to which are added sermons on the Christian doctrine, as received by the different denominations of Christians (by E. W. Weld and W. Greenough for John West, 1794) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Sermons on various subjects (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816), also by William Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Tracts. (London, 1791), also by Unitarian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue, Thomas Belsham, Hopton Haynes, David Hartley, Harry Toulmin, John Smith, Nathaniel Lardner, George Rogers, Theophilus Lindsey, Jonas Hanway, Joshua Toulmin, and Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Two tracts on civil liberty : the war with America, and the debts and finances of the kingdom: with a general introduction and supplement (T. Cadell, 1778) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom: With a General Introduction and Supplement (Gutenberg ebook)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Vergleichende Darstellung der Ansichten (Huber, 1910), also by Albert Jaeger and Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary, with his life (S. Andrus and son, 1847), also by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin : consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary ; with his life, written by himself. (Scott, Webster, and Geary ..., 1835), also by Benjamin Franklin and Henry Stueber (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin, consisting of his life written by himself, together with Essays, humorous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator... (Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793), also by Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Vaughan, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), and Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Price, Richard, 1723-1791: The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin consisting of his Life written by himself : together with Essays humorous, moral, & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. (New York : Printed by Tiebout & Obrian for H. Gain, V. Nutter, R. McGill, T. Allen, J, Read, E. Duyckinck, & Co. and Edward Mitchell no. 9, Maiden Lane., [1794]), also by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, and Peter Rushton Maverick, ed. by Benjamin Vaughan (HTML at Evans TCP)

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