£180
Politics Annotated with Poetry. A Copy of a Poll of the Burgesses and Freeholders Of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, For electing Two Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the said Town [...] April 1754; (in the exact Order they voted) before John Fellows and Thomas Sands, Gentlemen, Sheriffs. Candidates, [...] Lord Viscount Howe, Sir Wilughby (sic, i.e. Willoughby) Aston, Bart. [&] John Plumptree [...], Nottingham: Printed by Tho. Collyer, and sold by R. Ware on Ludgate-Hill London, et al., 1754, pp: [1], 76pp, interleaved, [4]ff of which between pages 2-9 are inscribed in contemporary ink manuscript with a 33-stanza poem, 'The Tories Lamentation' by J.D. of Leicester, the verse untraceable by us thus far, contemporary calf boards, rebacked and repaired, inner-margins reinforced, 8vo
Provenance: 1) John Soare/Nottingham/1766; MS inscription to ffep. 2) John Walker. 1807/January 1* Bottle Lane; MS inscription to recto pastedown. 3) Frederic Arthur Wadsworth (1871-1943), Nottingham historian and book collector; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
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