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THE ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE

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.

8vo (212 × 132 mm.), pp. [ii], 11, [1], [vii]-xx, 454, 6 (adverts), bound with the “Re-constitution and subsequent proceedings of the National Anti-Corn-Law League 1852-1854” apparently not present in all copies. Contemporary diced calf, gilt panelled spine. Engraved presentation label of the League, dated Manchester 1854, to front pastedown. Early (continental) library stamp to verso of initial blank and in gilt to foot of spine. An excellent copy.

First edition, presentation copy. 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

£200.00 (equal to approx. US$315.54* or €247.40* for 22 May 2012)

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