Rough Hewer Devoted Support Democratic Principles (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. This volume includes the first 39 issues of "The Rough-Hewer", after which it became a part of the "Albany Argus". Gilt-stamped half leather with marbled paper over boards, 312 pages, Index. Boards are worn, especially at corners and edges, front board is almost completely detached, some offsetting of text, scattered staining, otherwise interior is clean and still highly readable. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 8 oz. Category: Politics & Government; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013614.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 39 issues bound in one volume. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Moderate wear to boards, joints split. 310 pp (of 312). Toning and spotting to pages. Contemporary signature of A.P. Hentley to each issue. Later ownership signature of William Clarkin to fep. Lacking final page of index. Additional pamphlets bound in are: Number 1 of "The Tribune, and Spirit of Ninety-Eight" By H. N. Johnson. July 4, 1840; "Letter of Hon. David Hubbard to the Voters of the Second Congressional District of the State of Alabama. March 1840;" "Rough-Hewer Extra. Proposition to Extend the British Funding System to the United States. 1840." After no. 39 this was incorporated with the 'Albany Argus' and published under the title of the 'Weekly Argus and Rough-Hewer.'.

1/2 leather. Condition: Very good copy. 1st. 4to, 312 pp., Complete set of the first (only?) year of this periodical (nos. 1-39)., Bound in 1/2 calf over marbled boards with black leather title label; leather somewhat dry, some scattered foxing. Pages have been slightly trimmed by the binder but no text is affected.

Caption title, 8 pages [pages 249-256]. The 24 September 1840 issue. No. 32 of this short-lived periodical. Caption title, printed in three columns per page, [8] pages. Old folds, chips at upper margin, with a pinhole affecting two letters in the running title at page 250. Else Very Good. This Democratic periodical supports the Democratic Presidential ticket of Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson. For State offices, the Rough-Hewer favors William Bouck for Governor, and Deniel Dickinson for Lieut. Governor. Presidential electors are listed by district. The Whig candidate, William Henry Harrison, is excoriated, as are Whig banking and other public policies. AI 40-5891 [5].

Folio issue of this short-lived periodical: October 15, 1840. Caption title, printed in three columns per page, [8] pages. Untrimmed and uncut, widely margined, light fox and wear. A few tiny holes in the October issue, affecting a couple of letters. Good+. This Democratic periodical supports the Jackson-Van Buren credit and banking program, and blasts the Whig William Henry Harrison. Its motto: "New-York must be redeemed." The Rough-Hewer warns of "The great money conspiracy between the British Whigs in England and America. The British Press and the British Fund Mongers [are] electioneering for Harrison." AI 40-5891 [5].