(COMBINATION ACT). ~ An act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen. 12 July 1799. [London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799].
Folio (295 × 190 mm), pp. [1], 654-672. Woodcut arms to first leaf above drophead title. Disbound.
First edition of the so-called Combination Act, which prohibited trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers. Though separately published with a general title for a complete sitting of Parliament, individual Acts of Parliament were paginated to be bound together in yearly volumes hence the pagination 654-672 here.
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