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A Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam Demonstrating the Real Tendency of the Proceedings of the Late York Meeting for Taking into Consideration the Transactions at Manchester, on the 16th of August Last, and of Other Meetings Called for the Same Object Etc. Etc.
by A Member of No Party; [Kenney, Arthur Henry]
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About This Item
London: F.C. And J. Rivington, 1819. [3], 2-94pp. Contemporary polished calf covers, later rebacked, smooth spine, title and date in gilt to spine, single fillet border to covers. Some darkening to edges where rebacked, scrape to upper cover, text lightly browned but generally clean. Work by Arthur Henry Kenney (1776/7-1855), a Church of Ireland dean. Addressed to William Wentworth, the second Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833), who had been dismissed from his post as lord lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire after he had chaired a protest meeting against the Peterloo massacre. Goldsmiths 22672. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.
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- Zetetic Books
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- 004110
- Title
- A Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam Demonstrating the Real Tendency of the Proceedings of the Late York Meeting for Taking into Consideration the Transactions at Manchester, on the 16th of August Last, and of Other Meetings Called for the Same Object Etc. Etc.
- Author
- A Member of No Party; [Kenney, Arthur Henry]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- F.C. And J. Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1819
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cat18, Peterloo, Fitzwilliam, Wentworth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Chartism and Radicalism;
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