Cowen, Joseph, Esq., M.P.: Speeches on Public Questions and Political Policy, Delivered during the Parliamentary Contest occasioned by the death of Sir Joseph Cowen, With an Additional Speech on the Subject of Mr Gladstone's Manifesto. , Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Published under the Auspices of the Northern Reform League, by Robert Stapleton, 1874

vi+159+3 pp. 19 x 13 cm. The Northern Reform League was a Liberal Party society of c.57,000 members, pressing for electoral reform, universal suffrage, triennial Parliaments, payment of members, a better apportionement of representitives to population, an extension of the time for polling and the payment of election expenses by ratepayers. 140 years on and we are stll arguing for some of these, plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose! Gold-blocked and blind-stamped faded purple boards, new cloth spine, with gilt title on the front board, owner's signature on ffep. A few pages lightly fingered, otherwise tight and clean. (Book ref. 12965)  £42.50

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