Berkshire Election Poem.
£60.00 GBP • Used
Single sheet, 280 x 145 mm. in the form of a nursery rhyme ditty. Manuscript note reading “Written at the time of the Great Contest in Berkshire before the Reform Bill.” John Walter, n...
Single sheet, 280 x 145 mm. in the form of a nursery rhyme ditty. Manuscript note reading “Written at the time of the Great Contest in Berkshire before the Reform Bill.” John Walter, named here, was one of the three members elected in the 1832 General Election, the first after the Representation of the People Act 1832, more commonly known as the Reform Act, which attempted to clean up the wide inconsistencies and corruption in the ‘rotten boroughs.’
Product Info
Publisher: Abingdon: Heath, printer, 1832.
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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