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£475.00
(COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING) “From Howland’s Steam Confectionery and Grocery stores, 12 & 14, Bank Street, Ashford.” ~ [A complete uncut sheet of 16 confectioner’s labels/wrappers.] [n.p., n.d., but Kent, c. 1890-1900.]
A lovely ephemeral survival from Ashford (Kent or Middlesex).
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The 16 confectioner’s wrappers preserved here each bear a different coloured image with a joke beneath: ‘Epigrammatic. Elder Brother: - “You don’t know grammar Charley.” Charley:- “Yes, me do know Gramma - we went to see her on Christmas Day.”’
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£200.00
DUNCKLEY, Henry. ~ The charter of the nations; or, free trade and its results: an essay on the recent commercial policy of the United Kingdom, to which the council of the National Anti-Corn Law League awarded their first prize. London: W. and F.G. Cash and M’Glashan in Dublin and Menzies in Edinburgh, 1854.
First edition, presentation copy.
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The Anti-Corn Law League offered prizes for essays showing the results of the repeal of the corn-law and the free-trade policy, and Dunckley, a pioneering journalist of social causes, gained the first prize of £250 for this work
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£175.00
GRENVILLE, [William Wyndham Grenville, Baron]. ~ Substance of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, in the House of Lords, November 30, 1819. On the Marquis of Lansdowne's motion, that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of the country, and more particularly into the distresses and discontents prevalent in the manufacturing districts, and the execution of the laws with respect to the numerous meetings which have taken place. Pp. [iv] (half title and title), 62, [2] (advert). London: John Murray, 1820.
An interesting collection of speeches by leading lights of British politics given between 1819-1822.
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The majority relate to distresses of the countryside and the manufacturing districts.
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£50.00
MANDER, Samuel S[mall]. ~ Our Opium Trade with China… with appendix. Fifth Thousand. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. and J. M’D. Roebuck in Wolverhampton, 1877.
A highly critical pamphlet on the opium trade operated by the British between India and China.
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£350.00
RAYMENT, Robert. ~ The corn-trade of Great Britain, for eighteen years, from 1748, to 1765. Compared with the eighteen years, from 1771, to 1788. Shewing the national loss in the latter period to have been above twenty millions of money... London: for T. Whieldon, 1790.
First edition.
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