Resultados de búsqueda: Nineteenth Century from Zetetic Books

Leeds: Leeds District Board of the Association of All Classes of All Nations, 1838. [3], 4-12pp. Stitched into modern marbled wrappers, paper title label to upper cover. Externally very good. Text browned, title and final page of text lightly soiled, but generally clean. Despite the title, Baines, Oastler, and Cawood seemed relatively impressed with New Lanark. Goldsmiths 30726 . First Edition. Paper Covers. Good+. 12mo. Pamphlet.

London: Charles Hunter, 1837. [3], 4-99pp, [1]. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Title and reverse of final text leaf lightly soiled, one or two spots of soiling to margins, but generally fairly bright and clean. Presentation copy, 'with the author's respect', to head of title. The first edition, it was reprinted in the same year, and again in 1840. Goldsmiths 30221. Presentation Copy. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Gale and Fenner; J.M. Richardson; and Hatchard, 1816. [3], 4-65, [4], ii-xlvii, [1]. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Externally very good. Library stamp (Law Society) to head of first page of text and another to head of Appendix title, title a little soiled and lightly foxed, text lightly browned, but generally fairly clean. Lacking original wrappers. Wise 36. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

London: John Chapman, 1851. [7], vi-xi, [2], 6-182pp. Half calf and marbled paper over boards, semi-raised bands, spine in six panels, title and author in gilt to second panel. Gilt faded, paper covering boards chipped to edges, leather rubbed to extremities, small splits to joints but holding. Internally lightly browned and paper cockled throughout, though still easily readable. James Hole (1820-1895), writer and social activist, "He numbered among his friends and correspondents many of the radical thinkers of the day. He was often invited to speak on his social principles, but his voice was strongest in writing - clear, concise, backed up with statistics, practical and organised. Alongside articles for various journals, he published in 1851 ‘Lectures on Social Science and the Organisation of Labour’, setting out his social and economic theories, his belief in the achievability of progress and justice for the working classes" (Thoresby Society). First Edition. Hardback. Fair. 8vo.

London: Waterlow and Sons, 1849. [3], 2-54pp. Modern marbled boards, paper title label to spine. Externally very good, internally lightly browned throughout, but clean. Reprinted from the 'Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review' for April, 1849. No physical copies in Library Hub. First Separate. Hardback. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Hampstead: The 'Express' Office, 1871. [3], 4-46pp. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Externally very good, internally lightly browned throughout, otherwise clean. Pauperism is "an ulcerated sore that is eating into the vitals of the body politic". Two copies in Library Hub (BL and Senate House). First Edition. Hardback. Good. 16mo. Pamphlet.

London: Hurst, Chance and Co. And Effingham Wilson, 1830. [5], vi-xi, [2], 2-182pp. Original cloth, title label to spine. Spine lightly faded, with light staining towards top and a small ink stain towards foot, light stain to lower cover, cloth generally lightly mottled. Lacks the front free endpaper, previous owners name to head of half-title, frontispiece lightly stained, otherwise fairly clean. With engraved frontispiece by Robert Wallis after Henry Corbould, tailpiece to final leaf. Nominally the second edition, but at least the third (with editions in 1826 and 1828). Sargent describes it as promoting a "better society possible through the application of Christianity and reason. Anti-capitalist". See Stammhammer I:200; Sargent, page 20; Negley 814; Goldsmiths 25138; Kress C.2594; and Wolff 4906, for earlier and other editions. Reprint. Hardback. Good. 12mo.

Dublin: M. Goodwin, 1830. [2], 3-16pp. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, title and final page of text very slightly soiled, otherwise fairly clean. The full title is, "An Antidote to Revolution; Or, A Practical Comment on the Creation of Privilege for Quadrating the Principles of Consumption with Production, and Thereby Creating Stimulus for the Unlimited Production of National Wealth, Neutralizing the Motives for Political Discontent, and Establishing a Solid Base for the Promotion of Morality". Includes a brief look at 'colonies' (ie. Robert Owen and William Thompson), and includes suggestions for the reorganisation of land and labour in the West Indies. Four physical locations in Library Hub. Goldsmiths 26083. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Edinburgh: Alex. Smellie, 1816. [3], 4-16pp. Modern quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, title label to upper cover. Externally very good, internally moderate foxing throughout. J.H. Forbes was the Convener of the Committee. Goldsmiths 21593. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Henry Hansard; George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1856. [6], 7-134pp; [3], 4-47pp, [1]. Contemporary cloth, with a manuscript title label to upper cover. Rubbed to extremities, lightly browned internally, with a couple of spots of foxing, but generally fairly clean. Name of a company of lawyers, Robinson, Perfect, and Robinson, of Blackburn, to ffep and title of second named. With a folding map. No copies located for this year. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 4to.

London: J. Hatchard, 1808. [5], viii-xvi, [1], 2-188pp, [14]. Slightly later half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back, spine in six panels, title label to second panel. Rubbed to extremities, corners bumped and worn. Small closed tear to fore edge margin of title, previous owners name to head of ffep, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Useful legal vade mecum, covering subjects as diverse as sheep, gaming, ale houses, hats, and seditious meetings. There were four editions before 1827. There is only one physical copy (Essex) of this first edition in Library Hub. Maxwell and Maxwell II: 293. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 12mo.

London: Olliver, 1848. [5], 6-32pp. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Lightly browned throughout, otherwise clean. Goldsmiths suggests the author is T. Clutton Salt, but Library Hub calls this attribution 'dubious'. Library Hub also suggests that 'John Bull' is John Stanley. It was reprinted a year later with the second and third examinations and an appendix. Goldsmiths 35610. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: J. Pitts Single sided printed broadside, approximately 245mm x 365mm in size, n.d. but c.1820. Slightly chipped and creased to edges, lightly browned, a couple of small spots, but generally quite clean. Double column, with attractive border. Relates the dream of a seaman called James Covey, who, two weeks before the battle of Camperdown with the Dutch fleet, had dreamed that he had both of his legs blown off. During the engagement, he did indeed lose both of his legs. The text is signed John Griffin, who was pastor at the Tabernacle in Orange Street, near Southsea Common, which had opened in 1754, and who was the author of several books and pamphlets. Pitts was at this address in 1820 and 1821. Showing at Hull only in Library Hub, but the R.T.S. seemingly issued the story in a 8pp pamphlet around the same time, so I'm not sure which came first. Unknown. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside.

London and Plymouth: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans and Edward Nettleton, 1846. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [3],viii-xviii, [1], 4-322pp and Volume Two - [3], iv-xviii, [1], 324-878pp. Original cloth, with original paper label to spines. Spines faded, private library sticker to foot of spines, upper joint of volume one starting but holding, corners bumped, rubbed to extremities. Internally lightly browned throughout, a few instances of pencil marginalia, endnotes rubbed out to lower pastedowns and free endpapers. Uncommon, with only three physical copies in Library Hub. Goldsmiths 34543. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

London: James Ridgeway and Sons, 1834. [3], 2-140pp,16pp, 16pp. Original wrappers, relined and rebacked. Rubbed to extremities, light staining to first few pages, several pages with underlining and marginalia, sometimes in pen. Bound with the adverts. An anti-Union pamphlet, "the names of those, who have supplied the information, have been suppressed, generally at their own request, as many of them have stated, and this fact may give some idea of the terror inspired by these Societies, that their property and perhaps their lives might be endangered, were it publicly known that they had interested themselves in exposing the character of Trades' Unions". Goldsmiths 28804. First Edition. Paper Covers. Fair. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: House of Commons, 1874. Collection of papers relating to the Boston election of 1874, comprising - 1. 'Copy of the Shorthand Writer's Notes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of the Boston Election Petition', iv, 76pp; 2. 'For the Trial of Election Petitions', pp19-30; 3. 'Summons to Witness' form, 1p; 4. 'Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston', 1876, [5], vi-xiv, [2], 3-51pp, [1]; and 5. 'Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston', 1876, [3], 2-268pp. Half calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel, gilt thick and thin double rules either side of bands. Rubbed to extremities, lightly foxed to edges and occasionally to margins, a few pen lines to margins, previous owners name to head of a few of the different… Leer más

London: J. Ridgway, 1810. [5], 2-107pp, [1]. Bound in modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Small amount of loss to bottom corner of half-title, sporadic light foxing (mainly to signatures L and M), lightly browned throughout, but generally fairly clean. Burdett, "who presented the Westminster reform petition, 9 Feb., and opposed Wellington's annuity, 16 Feb., was unwell on 21 Feb. when John Gale Jones, the radical publicist, was committed to Newgate for breach of privilege in challenging the right of the House to exclude strangers. He revived the issue, 12 Mar., by moving for his release and denouncing the use of privilege as an offensive weapon, but he secured only 14, mostly reluctant votes. Cobbett's Political Register of 24 Mar. 1810 reprinted his speech and prefaced it with an address to his constituents impugning the House for illegal exercise of its privilege. Ministers welcomed the issue as a diversion from the Walcheren question and, with their connivance, Thomas Buckler Lethbridge… Leer más

London: James Ridgeway and Sons, 1834. [3], 2-140pp. Rebound in modern marbled boards, paper title label to spine. Externally very good, title browned to edges (probably from leather turn ins in an old binding), otherwise bright and clean. Bound without adverts. An anti-Union pamphlet, "the names of those, who have supplied the information, have been suppressed, generally at their own request, as many of them have stated, and this fact may give some idea of the terror inspired by these Societies, that their property and perhaps their lives might be endangered, were it publicly known that they had interested themselves in exposing the character of Trades' Unions". Goldsmiths 28804. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Exeter: Flindell [Printer] Single sided printed broadside, approximately 175mm x 220mm in size, n.d. c.1820? Quite bright and clean. The full title is 'Wanted Immediately, Many Thousands, to Pay Off Old Scores and New Ones. For Which Purpose an Auction Will be Held of All That Inn Famous Concern, Situate in Bampfylde-Lane, at the Sign of the Great Cann, in the Parish of Spreyton, for Sale of the Undermentioned Live and Dead Stock'. The printer is probably Thomas Flindell fl. 1812-1824 (see BBTI). Relating mainly to local politicians ('Bampfylde-Lane' presumably relates to Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, an Exeter MP between 1796 and 1812), there is also a mention of 'a large lot of White Hats on dirty poles', which presumably relates to Henry Hunt who was famous for wearing a white hat. The individual disguised as, 'One Old Poltimore [a village in Devon] Cock, without spurs, having Chicken by various Hens', remains unknown to this cataloguer. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. 8vo. Broadside.

Bristol: Cadel and Blackwood and Co., 1833. [5], vi-xxxviii, [3], 2-251, [252-255], 252-432pp. Original cloth, rebacked with new paper label to spine. Bumped to corners, rubbed to extremities, lightly browned internally, but generally quite clean. With a small advertisement slip for the work bound in at the rear. The rejection of the Reform Bill in 1831 led to rioting in Bristol, with several killed and many injured. Pinney was Mayor of Bristol at the time and was charged with neglect of duty, but was found not guilty . First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.