peterloo massacre (5 Ergebnisse)

Inchbald ran a 'gentleman's boarding academy'. The recipient Ward (1781-1871) was a master cutler and diarist, and one of the founders in 1822 of the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society. Three pages, 4to. Dusty but in very good condition, with small piece of second leaf of bifoliate cut away in opening the red wax seal. '[.] I write to you [.] to impose upon you some possibly irksome task. - Things are here in a Train towards the establishing [of] a public library & reading room. The committee of management have thought it expedient to have the Rules of similar associations existing in Sheffield, York, & Leeds: and I have been requested to obtain Copies of the Regulations of your George Street Library.' Also requests answers to three queries ('3. Does one room answer the double purpose of Library & News Room?') '[B]e sure to let me hear from you on Monday. The Committee meets on Tuesday at twelve oclock, when some decisive Step will probably be adopted.' He thanks him for 'two Nos of the Mercury - one containing the proceedings of your Meeting respecting the Manchester Attrocities. - a Loyal Declaration has been handed about here. & about seventy Signatures obtained. I declined affixing my name, as did many of the truly respectable inhabitants.' Signed 'P. Inchbald'. Addressed and stamped in black ink 'DONCASTER | 159'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. With frontispiece: A plan of St. Peters Field in the town of Manchester, with the avenues leading thereto, signed: Pigot sculp.Modern quarter leather with blue morocco spine label, gilt, marbled paper-covered sides. Unobtrusive Bradford Public Library stamp. Some wear to spine, A very good copy.

Folding front. map of St. Peters Field, Manchester. Sympathetically bound in half tan calf, marbled boards, vellum-tipped corners, spine ruled in gilt & with black morocco label. v.g. Henry Hunt and others were tried in 1820 for causing a riot at the political meeting on 16th August 1819. Redford claimed that he had been assaulted and seriously wounded during the same riot. The defendants claimed that he was one of the rioters, and they had been engaged in suppressing a seditious conspiracy. The long trial describes the events of the day and a verdict was obtained for the defendants. On appeal a retrial was refused.

Disbound. 24pp. A satirical verse account of the (entirely peaceful) open-air radical meeting held in Newcastle on October 11th 1819, five days before the fateful events in Manchester. With contemporary ink identification of those involved. Anonymous in BL.

Disbound; first gathering loose, final leaf nearly detached. 24pp. Contemp. ink notes identifying those involved, with later ink biographical notes, 1p. ms. note signed 'JB' tipped in after p.8; portrait of Samuel Horsley loosely inserted, newspaper cutting about Thomas Jameson pasted to p.21. Signed Bob Fudge, and edited by the publisher John Marshall. The manuscript notes were clearly done by someone who was familiar with both the individuals discussed in the pamphlet and those involved in its production. They list the author as 'Mr Thomas Carr, attorney of Newcastle', with a later note adding 'who died 7 April 1843, aged 62 years'. All institutional records we have found list the author as anonymous or the pseudonymous Bob Fudge. A newspaper advertisement from October 9, 1819 is reprinted as a footnote on p.8, followed by a tipped in manuscript note which explains what happened to the newspaper following the inclusion of that ad, particularly that sales fell 75%. A satirical verse account of the (entirely peaceful) open-air radical meeting held in Newcastle on October 11th, 1819 after the Manchester massacre on the 16th of August. This protest was the largest of its kind to take place in the aftermath of Peterloo.