Author: UNWIN, intro. Mrs. cOBDEN
Title: The Hungry Forties. Life under the Bread Tax. Descriptive Letters and other Testimonies from contemporary Witnesses. With an Introduction by Mrs. Cobden Unwin. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Description: T Fisher Unwin,, 1904. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (orifinal tissue guard present) and double-page facsimile, endpapers lightly browned, half-title spotted, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board framed, letterd and blocked in gilt, gilt back, a bright, clean copy. With the amorial bookplate (partially defaced) of Lestocq Robert Erskine on front paste-down, and 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. Valuable collection of contemporary accounts.

Keywords: history, eighteen forties, hungry forties, bread tax


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