Author: Wiseman, William Thomas.
Title: The Metropolitan Water Supply, "Water Question" &C. , &C. Sixth Edition of Above Circular with Additional Reprints. (Sixteenth Thousand).
Description: (London): G. Hill, 1882. 1882. - Octavo, printed self-wraps sewn with cream cord. 32 pages. The title & last page are soiled. The front edge of the title is chipped; there is a crease to its bottom corner & a price-sticker has been partially removed from its top corner. The bottom corner of the last leaf is creased & torn. The remaining page corners are lightly bumped with creasing to the bottom corners of 2 rear leaves. Good.

"Nothing less than direct representation to the coming Water Board will satisfy the ratepayers of the Metropolis..It would be a wholesome check on the members of that board if they were elected--as I trust the new water authority will be--by the suffrages of the ratepayers, and the votes of the water consumers.." [From a Thomas Wiseman letter quoted in the press and reprinted in this pamphlet].

Scarce. Good .

Keywords: POLITICS; ENGLAND; LONDON; THE METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY; WILLIAM THOMAS WISEMAN; PAMPHLET; WATER BOARD; CONSUMER REPRESENTATION; RATEPAYERS; RATES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

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