carpenter william editor (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.59 inches. In Stock.

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Softcover. First Paperback Edition. Octavo, 240 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Wraps have mild bending wear to front fore corners and along head edge, mild shelving wear along extremities, and mild general soiling. Textblock head edge has faint smudging along head and tail edges. Contains slip from previous seller stating the first appearance of Anne Tyler's work. Signed flat on p. 146 by Anne Tyler [Author]. Signed on p.205 by Reynolds Price [Author]. Shelved Room C. 1398298. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 64 Pages. Portrait frontispiece. 225x145mm. Original quarter leather marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered gilt. Set in Baskerville type and printed at the Dolmen Press, Dublin in an edition of 200 copies, of which this is number 112. A fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings.

4to. pp. 1 p.l., 12, [1 leaf]contents, 16, 16, 16, 16, 24, 16, 16, 16. 9 issues only. all but 1 issue with woodcut headpiece. disbound (some foxing & soiling to first 8 leaves). Carpenter maintained that his journal, Political Letters, was not liable to the stamp duty on newspapers, and he in fact issued it partly to try the question. A prosecution followed in the court of exchequer. At the trial Carpenter defended himself, was convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment in the king's bench. An account of the trial is included here (issue for May 4, 1831), in addition to: An Expostulatory Letter To The Commissioners of Stamps (October 21, 1830); A Monitory Letter to Sir Robert Peel (October 15, 1830); A Monitory Letter to the People of England (October 29, 1830); A Letter to the Aristocracy of England (November 6, 1830); Facts and Observations Connected with the Present Times (November 18, 1830); A Letter to Earl Grey (November 25, 1830); A Political Miscellany (December 9, 1830); A Political Omnibus (April 8, 1831).

First editions. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are "An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp, 21 October 1830; "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England" 24 pp, 6 Nov. 1830; "A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp., 4 Dec. 1830; "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp., 7 Dec. 1830; "A Political Miscllany [on National Debt]" 16 pp., 9 Dec. 1830; "A Political Compendium [on Reform]" 16 pp. with an 8 page supplement (printed at the Published of the Office of the Political Letters), 18 Dec. 1830; "A Political Digest," 16 pp., 23 Dec. 1830; "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton," 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830; "A Political Mirror," 16 pp., 7 Jan. 1831; "A Political Chronicle," 16 pp., 13 Jan, 1831; "A Political Herald," 21 Jan, 1831. NCBEL 3:1818 Eleven pamphlets plus the Supplement bound in contemporary green sheep-backed marbled boards. Spine defective, edges rubbed, some light spotting or browning of leaves, else very good copies of these Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to.

Zustand: Disbound. First editions. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are: 1. " A Report on the Trail of William Carpeter 12 pp. 2.An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp, 21 October 1830; 3. A Monitory Letter to ther People of England. 16pp. with an ad for Queen Mab.(October 29, 1830) 4. "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England. " 24 pp, 6 Nov. 1830; 5 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington.16pp 6. Facts and Observations connected to the Present Times. 16pp. (November 18, 1830) 7. A Letter to Earl Gray.(November 25, 1830) 8."A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp., 4 Dec. 1830 9. "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp., 7 Dec. 1830 10. "A Political Miscellany [on National Debt]" 16 pp., 9 Dec. 1830 11, "A Political Compendium [on Reform]" 16 pp., 18 Dec. 1830 12 "A Political Digest," 16 pp., 23 Dec. 1830 13. A Supplement to Carpenter's Political Compendium. 8 pp. 14. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton," 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830 15. "A Political Mirror," 16 pp., 7 Jan. 1831 16.; "A Political Chronicle," 16 pp., 13 Jan, 1831 17. ; "A Political Herald," 21 Jan, 1831 18. A Political Register January 28, 1831. 16 pp. 19. A Political Letter. Feburary 4, 1831. 16 pp. 20. Another Political Letter Feburary 12, 1831. 16 pp. 21. A Letter to the Rightr Hon. The Chancellotr of the Exchequer. 16 pp. 22. A Political Monitor Friday May 6, 1831. 16 pp. 23. A Political Censor. Saturday May 14, 1831. 16 pp. At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury, first as an errand boy, and then as an apprentice. In 1830 he issued a series of Political Letters with which he attempted to defy the stamp duty on newspapers, but in May 1831 he was tried and convicted of evading the law and was imprisoned. While in prison, he edited a political magazine which was republished as Carpenter's Monthly Political Magazine in 1832. NCBEL 3:1818 Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to.