The emancipation of the soil, and free trade in land. By a landed proprietor.

Edinburgh: John Johnstone. London: R Groombridge & Sons, 1845. 8vo. [ii], 43[1]pp, [2pp] rear blank. Stab-sewn as issued. Title and rear blank soiled and lightly spotted; title-page leaf-edges lightly rubbed and very slightly chipped. * From the Gladstone library at Fasque.

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Book number: 38323

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Agriculture Economics

The important question discussed; or, a serious and impartial enquiry into the true interest of England, with respect to the Continent.

London: printed for M Cooper, 1746. 8vo. 48pp. Disbound from a disparate collection of pamphlets. Title and last page very lightly soiled. * Sometimes attributed to Samuel SQUIRE. ** ESTC: n017171

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Book number: 38439

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics

A letter to a member of parliament. Concerning the present state of affairs at home and abroad. By a true lover of the people.

London: printed for T Cooper, 1740 2nd edition. 8vo in fours. [iv], 60pp, head and tail-piece, decorated capital. Bound with: A second letter to a member of parliament concerning the present state of affairs. Wherein all that has been written against the former is refuted; and the positions therein laid down with respect to the right of instructing members, &c are farther explained and supported from reason, law, and history. London: printed for T Cooper, 1741. 8vo in fours. 66pp, head and tail-piece, decorated capital. Recent quarter-style paper boards, printed paper spine label, sprinkled leaf-edges. Binding very lightly soiled; evidence of worming, not affectiong text, to lower margin of the first work; hts soiled; 'tide mark' to upper margin of first and last few leaves of the first work. * Fine engraved heraldic book-plate to fpdep. ** Goldmiths 7808; Sabin 40399; Kress 4508 (2nd edition).

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Book number: 40012

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Prerogative, Royal

[GLADSTONE, John.]

On the present state of the country. ( ... a copy of the continuation of a letter addressed to a friend.)

Fasque: N.P., 23rd October, 1847. 4to. 3[1]pp single folded sheet. Horizontal fold. Not in COPAC or OCLC.

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Book number: 38387

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics

The poll-book of the late contested elections for mayor and sheriff; together with squibs, addresses, and other papers, issued on the occasion, and a brief narrative of the election ...

Chester: printed and published by M Galway, 1819. 8vo. v[i]pp, pp [5]-53, text tables, blanks bound-in before and after the work. Contemporary half red calf gilt, marbled sides, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with light wear; prelims and last few leaves spotted and browned otherwise light and random; light marginal pencil dashes against some entries. * COPAC records Cardiff and ULRLS. Nothing in the BL Catalogue for the 1819 Chester election.

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Book number: 38370

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics elections North West England

A true copy of the poll taken at Oxford January 31, 1750. With several papers sent to the common rooms of the respective colleges, relating to the election of a Member of Parliament for the university

London: printed for R. Baldwin, jun. at the Rose in Pater-Noster Row, [1750]. 4to. [iv], 15[1]pp. Modern plain-paper boards. Title-page and last [blank] page lightly soiled and browned; some shaving to leaves affecting some names in the poll.; light vertical creases. Well held at libraries.

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Book number: 38865

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Poll-Book

ALDRED, Guy A.

Richard Carlile, agitator: his life and times. "The Word" Library. Second Series No. 3.

Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1941 3rd revised editiion. 8vo. 160pp, plates within the pagination. Original printed orange-card wraps, stapled. Rear wrap very lightly creased.

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Book number: 44486

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Biography Socialism

APPONYI, Albert, Count.

A brief sketch of the Hungarian Constitution and of the relations between Austria and Hungary.

Budapest: St Stephens Printing-Press Co, 1908. Large 8vo. 75pp. Contemporary purple pebble-grained cloth gilt. Cloth partly browned and stained; feps partly browned. Ex-reference library with usual evidence - none external.

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Book number: 37153

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Eastern Europe Balkans

BURKE, Edmund.

A letter from the right honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord, on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, early in the present sessions of Parliament.

London: printed for J Owen and F and C Rivington, 1769 11th edition. 8vo. [iv], 80pp. Disbound from a disparate collection. Ht very lightly soiled and spotted. * This 11th edition not recorded in ESTC.

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Book number: 38700

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics history

DODD, Charles R.

The Parliamentary Companion, for 1848. Sixteenth year.

London: Whittaker & Co, 1848. Small 8vo. 263[1]pp. Original navy pebble-grained limp-cloth gilt, yellow eps, aeg. Wraps rubbed with a scattering of light stains. * From the Gladstone library at Fasque.

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Book number: 40111

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics history

DODD, Charles R.

The Parliamentary Companion, for 1853. Twenty-first year.

London: Whittaker & Co, 1853. Small 8vo. 296[2]pp. Original navy pebble-grained limp-cloth gilt, yellow eps, aeg. Wraps rubbed. * From the Gladstone library at Fasque with J. Gladstone's signature to fpdep.

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Book number: 40112

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics history

DODDS, Joseph, et al.

Probate, Administration, and Legacy Duties. Speeches by Mr. Joseph Dodds, M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Baxter, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, etc. House of Commons, Tuesday, May 20, 1879 ...

Middlesbrough: "Gazette" Offices, 1879. 8vo. 25[1]pp, printed in double-columns,printed note by J[oseph] D[odds] tipped-in to initial leaf gutter-margin. Original printed front wrap. General text age-browning. Small ink library stamp to front wrap. COPAC: BL, Bristol.

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Book number: 42231

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Law

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

A poll taken on Wednesday the 26th of July, 1837, for the election of two members to represent the City of Westminster in parliament.

London: Cookes and Ollivier, 1837. Tall 8vo in fours. [iv], various paginations according to parish, [2]pp publisher's advert, text tables. original grey paper boards, printed paper spine label, uncut. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; boards lightly soiled. * COPAC: Oxford, BL. OCLC adds Westmister Library, Duke and Indiana Universities.

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Book number: 38549

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Poll-Book

FONBLANQUE, Albany de.

How We are Governed: a handbook of the constitution, government, laws, and power of the British Empire. Revised and re-edited by W. J. Gordon.

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1889 16th edition. 8vo.xii, 208pp, frontis, [4]pp publisher's prospectus at rear. Original decorated brown cloth gilt. Extremes very lightly rubbed; eps and ht browned; very light offset from frontis to title-page.

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Book number: 33267

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics

GLADSTONE, John.

Colonial poverty and ministerial economy. To the Editor of the Montrose Standard.

Fasque: N.P., 26th June, 1849. 4to. 2[2]pp single folded sheet, printed in double-columns. Horizontal crease with further very light fold-marks. Not in COPAC or OCLC.

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Book number: 38385

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics