Elliott Ebeneezer (1 results)

Half-Calf. Condition: Good. 1st Thus. 179 pages, printed double column, litho engraved frontispiece, this is foxed, 19th century half-calf marbled boards, two ex-libris bookplates of William Denton & Charles C. Handford inside front board, some light occasional foxing other wise clean, tall or crown octavo. 1st collected edition of these poems. 1840. The poems include 16 pages of poems on the Corn-Laws + The Storming of Badajoz + The Sheffield Mechanics First Exhibition + Corn Law Hymns (6 pages) + Steam at Sheffield + Elegy on William Cobbett + Wharncliffe A Legend + The Ranter, etc, etc and some prose pieces or historical details. NOTES: The poet was a Yorkshire Mill owner he penned these poems on Yorkshire and the Corn-Laws acts in protest on the damage they caused. He was made bankrupt in 1816-17 which he blamed on cruel corn-laws. By 1830 he himself was a Mill Owner in Sheffield and protested these laws in acts and rhymes. **Note on one of the bookplates: Probably owned by William Denton [1823-1883] who was a self-taught geologist, preacher, and a promoter of occult practices such as psychometry. He claimed that inanimate objects had souls or memories among other philosophical asides.