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Wordsworth, William
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- Wordsworth, William
- Westmoreland election. An address to the freeholders of the county of Westmorland, elucidating the claims of the several candidates to the suffrages of the freeholders. Carlisle: B. Scott; and Messrs Airey and Bellingham (Kendal), 1818.
- Paper, ink.
8vo (190 x 145 mm). Victorian maroon morocco, cover rules in gilt and blind, title in gilt on upper cover within an elaborate frame.
first edition. Another attack by Wordsworth on Brougham's candidacy in the Westmoreland parliamentary election of 1818. This tract was wholly unknown until its discovery by T. J. Wise, who first described it in the Ashley Catalogue in 1930:
"This copy . . . is unique. Until I chanced upon it in the summer of 1928 that fact that such a pamphlet had ever existed was entirely unknown. The text has never been reprinted in any shape or form. The Address is an addition to those already available in Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, 1818. In it, as in the others, Mr. Brougham is denounced, and the claim of Lord Lowther to the support of the electors is pressed with urgency and vigour.
Aside from the Ashley copy in the British Library, one other is now recorded at Cornell.
first edition. Another attack by Wordsworth on Brougham's candidacy in the Westmoreland parliamentary election of 1818. This tract was wholly unknown until its discovery by T. J. Wise, who first described it in the Ashley Catalogue in 1930:
"This copy . . . is unique. Until I chanced upon it in the summer of 1928 that fact that such a pamphlet had ever existed was entirely unknown. The text has never been reprinted in any shape or form. The Address is an addition to those already available in Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, 1818. In it, as in the others, Mr. Brougham is denounced, and the claim of Lord Lowther to the support of the electors is pressed with urgency and vigour.
Aside from the Ashley copy in the British Library, one other is now recorded at Cornell.