Swing Riots (3 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 3 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. Cobbett's trial, one of at least 6 by this time, in which he conducted his own defence, ended in the jury being unable to decide and discharged without a verdict. Later in the same month he was convicted and sentenced to prison for two years and a thousand pound fine. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

First edition of this pamphlet published in support of the 1830 Swing Riots, in which agricultural labourers destroyed threshing machines and workhouses across southern England and East Anglia. The pamphlet purports to be the autobiography of Captain Swing, like General Ludd a fictitious figurehead of the movement, whose name was appended to many threatening letters in the riots. The publisher, Richard Carlile, issued numerous publications in favour of the riots, including in his journal The Prompter. In January 1831 he appeared at the Old Bailey on charges of seditious libel which resulted in a sentence of two years' imprisonment and a large fine, which he refused to pay, thereby extending his sentence by a further six months. Goldsmiths' 26453. Octavo pp. 24. Woodcut title vignette. Uncut in recent marbled wrappers. Occasional peripheral nicking, yet an excellent, clean copy.