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[WADE, John]
The Black Book;or, corruption unmasked! Being an account of places, pensions, and sinecures, the revenues of the clergy and landed aristocracy; the salaries and emoluments in courts of justice and the police department; the expenditure of the Civil List; ... the robbery of charitable foundations; the profits of the Bank of England, arising from the issue of its notes, balances of public money, management of the borough debt, and other sources of emolument; the debt, revenue, and influence of the East-India company; the state of the finances, debt, and sinking-fund … the whole forming a complete exposition of the cost, influence, patronage, and corruption of the Borough Government.
1820 - 8vo, (4) + 480pp, some signatures a bit foxed, contemporary calf, sometime rebacked with most of the original spine preserved. A good copy.
First edition. Kress C.638. Goldsmiths 23071.

 
Price : GBP£ 175
  
 

[CARPENTER, William?]
The effects of machinery on manual labour, and on the distribution of the produce of industry.... Reprinted by permission, from Carpenter's Political Magazine.
n.d. [1831 or 1832?] - 8vo., 8pp., last page a little soiled with minor abrasions but no loss, in old brown paper wrappers. A good copy.
First separate edition. Apparently rare. OCLC locates 2 copies only (at Johns Hopkins + Duke). NSTC finds only a BL copy. Goldsmiths 26987. Not in Kress.
labour, industrial revolution
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

[SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE]
An address to the labourers, on the subject of destroying machinery.
1830 - 8vo., 8pp., unbound and unopened as issued. A very good copy.
First edition. Goldsmiths 26448. Kress C.2420. Stammhammer I, p.1.
Luddites, working classes, industrial revolution, agriculture
  
Price : GBP£ 175
  
 

HORNE, Henry
Essays concerning iron and steel:the first, containing observations on American sand-iron: the second, observations, founded on experiments, on common iron-ore, with the method of reducing it first into pig or sow-metal, and then into bar-iron; on the sort of iron proper to be converted into good steel, and the method of refining that bar-steel, and the method of refining that bar-steel by fusion, so as to render it fit for the more curious purposes: with an account of Mr. Reaumur's method of softening cast-iron; and an Appendix, discovering a more perfect method of charring pit-coal, so as to render it a proper succedaneum for charred wood-coal.
1773 - 12mo., (2) + 223 + (1)pp., wanting a half-title, short tear to inner margin of title (no loss), inner margin (gutter) of following leaf stained, contemporary sheep, stamped in blind, some wear to joints else a sound copy.
First edition: scarce. Sabin 33031.
steel, industrial revolution, Sheffield
  
Price : GBP£ 450
  
 

MELSON, Robert
The defensive armour against the devouring sword of calumny supported:or, the dialogue between the stranger & native of Ashton-Under-Line. In which is given, an answer to the question, What is a Kilhamite, &c. resumed: and the vain attempts of the preachers, stewards, and leaders of the Kilhamitish Party in Ashton, in conjunction with Mr. M-nn-ers, to falsify the facts contained therein, exposed and justly condemned.
1815 - 8vo., 16pp., rather browned, the title-page somewhat soiled and spotted with adhesion to inner margin (printed surface unaffected), preserved in modern wrappers with printed title label on upper cover.
First edition: rare. COPAC & OCLC together find copies at BL + Manchester + NYPL + the Koninklijke Bibliotheck (Holland).
Ashton-under-Line, Methodists
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

[COOPER, Anthony] Ashley
Moral and religious education of the working classes.The speech of Lord Ashley, M.P., in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, February 28, 1843.
1843 - 8vo., 38pp., title-page rather soiled and with two old institutional library stamps, stitched but now disbound retaining lower plain wrapper. A presentation copy inscribed in ink, "from the author".
First separate edition. Goldsmiths 33391.
working classes, education, Lord Shaftesbury
  
Price : GBP£ 150
  
 

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