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[13 x 10 inches] 4to. [6] ff. Calligraphic script on vellum. Original elaborate presentation-style binding in full crimson crushed morocco, richly tooled with gilt and leather onlays of black morocco, a large set of initials for the owner, B.A. for Benjamin Armitage, mounted dark green watered silk endsheets, the binding is signed by Palmer & Howe, Manchester. An elegant commemorative album from the Pendleton Liberal Club, honoring the services rendered by Benjamin Armitage, as Club Treasurer, Vice-President and President, and Representative in Parliament for the Club, 1880-86 "to promote reforms lending to improve the condition of the people and to remove the evils from which they suffer." Signed Goodman Charles Mandleberg, President â" Henry Roper, Vice-President â" J. Grant, Treasurer â" A. Cleworth, Hon. Secretary â" Jonathan Shaw, James Pearson, H. Roper Junr., Thomas Murdock, A. E. Barlow, Joshua Johnson, Henry Dixon, G. Birch, etc. Following a full leaf of 20 original signatures of Club Committee members, there are some 240 names of the members, all handsomely written in fine calligraphic script. / The Pendleton Liberal Club began its charter in 1873/74. "The institution is intended to subserve two important ends, viz the promulgation of political opinions and social improvement. All the appliances of a first-class club will be placed within the reach of the working classes, and no restrictions will be placed upon the members other than those which obtain in the leading metropolitan political clubs." â" Architects of Greater Manchester, 1800-1940. / The elaborate hand-bound volume in full morocco, was bound by the Manchester, England, binder, Palmer & Howe, a prominent 19th-century publisher, bookseller, and lithographer, active during the late 1800s. They were known for producing high-quality books, prints, and industrial, technical, and local history works. / Benjamin Armitage (1823-1899), was an English industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. / NOTE: Accompanying the document is a printed copy of a letter addressed to Benjamin Armitage, relating to his decision not to be a candidate for Parliament, 1895. [3 pages; foxed]. ALSO: The obituary of Armitage, as written in the Manchester Evening News, Tuesday, December 5, 1899. [1 column].…