SHAFTESBURY CONTROVERSY . A bound collection of seven works published or by John Rutter with Shaftesbury imprints de RUTTER, John

Shaftesbury: John Rutter. Half Vellum. Very Good. 8vo.. 1. Sawyer versus Rutter. A Plain Narration of Shastonian Occurrences, without comment. 1826-7. (iv); iv; (3)-90; (ii); (7)-20 pp. SIGNED BY JOHN RUTTER. 2. The Shastonian Occasional Periodical Publication. 1826. (iv); (iv); (5)-82; 4 pp. 3. An Account of the Proceedings at Shaftesbury, in Consequence of the Resignation of the Recordership by Charles Bowles, Esq.; with explanatory notes and remarks. Second Edition, with an Introductory Reply to Certain Inaccurate Statements and Personal Reflections, Contained in an Advertisement in the Standard and Morning Herald Newspapers. 1828. (ii); viii; 20; (ii) pp. 4. Borough of Shaftesbury. A Letter from " Shastoniensis," on the Resignation of the Recordership by Charles Bowles, Esq.; Addressed to the Editors of the Dorset County Chronicle, and of the Sherborne and Taunton Journal, the 7th and 14th March, 1828; together with Three Letters in Reply, . 1828. 24 pp. 5. Shaftesbury. Parish Accounts. No. 1. Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Investigate the Accounts of the Surveyors of the Highways for St. Peter's Parish, for the year, ending at Michaelmas, 1827. 1828. 20 pp. 6. A Letter to the Commissioners of the Shaftesbury District of Turnpike Roads. By A Commissioner. 1827. 18 pages. 7. Remarks on a Pamphlet Entitled " Observations On The Removal of the Courts of Quarter Sessions, to Dorchester, the County Town of Dorset." 1825. 28 pages. Bound in one, in contemporary half vellum. John Rutter was the Shaftesbury printer and publisher of " The Shastonian," an occasional periodical publication, which along with it's publisher was implicated in a libel action, and consequently withdrawn from publication. An unique collection of works relating to the 1828 electoral controversy; probably being John Rutter's copy as the title page of the first work listed is signed by him. Only the first work is recorded in the Bodlean, the rest according to Copac are not held in any UK libraries.