[Rarebooks] fs: Special on 1783 Wedgwood / ABAA Benevolent Fund

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Here's the deal- we have this book listed at $4500, and will sell it for 
$3150, a 30% discount, IF the buyer will send $350 to the ABAA Benevolent 
Fund, a contribution we will match.

So, you pay us $3150 and send an extra $350 to the Benevolent Fund (so you 
are spending a total of $3500) and we will match your contribution and send 
$350 to the Benevolent Fund ourselves.

I hope that's clear; if not, please ask me to try to make it clearer. See 
the bottom of this email for details about the ABAA Benevolent Fund.

Here's the book-


Wedgwood, Josiah. AN ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG INHABITANTS OF THE POTTERY. 
Newcastle; J. Smith:1783. In 1783 the war with America and the Industrial 
Revolution had both caused unrest in the manufacturing districts of 
England. The cotton spinners had begun to destroy their own factories and 
robbers and highwaymen ruled the roads. To the general unrest was added 
resentment at provision dealers who were felt to be overcharging the poor 
and taking advantage of the workers. A mob seized one of Wedgwood's barges 
and sold the contents at auction, whereupon Wedgwood sent for help and 
received a company of Welsh Fusileers and Staffordshire Militia, who 
arrested and hanged several of the alleged culprits.

After the tumult had calmed, Wedgwood made an address to the workmen of his 
factory which was also printed up in pamphlet form and distributed amongst 
them. Dated March 27th, 1783, Wedgwood addresses "My Young Friends", 
assuring them that they are more apt to be deluded and lacking in judgment 
than those of "riper years". He draws their attention to the difficulty of 
judging which side to take, and which side is right and which is wrong, 
especially in "the unsettled state of the mind in the midst of riot and 
tumult", but he also draws their attention to "the danger of judging and 
acting wrong" -no doubt a pointed reference to those about to be swinging 
from local gallows.

Wedgwood calls for calm, explains at length the reasons for food and 
provision shortages, and, pointing out that the farmer and tradesman must 
also make a living, outlines at length his own proposals for renewed 
commerce and betterment of trade. He ends by urging the workmen to consider 
themselves lucky to be working under the paternalism of the factory system 
which has bettered their condition considerably from what their parents 
enjoyed-

"I would request you to ask your parents for a description of the country 
we inhabit when they first knew it... Their houses were miserable huts; the 
lands poorly cultivated... roads almost impassable... Compare this 
picture...with the present state of the country. The workmen earning near 
double their former wages -their houses mostly new and comfortable, and the 
lands, roads and every other circumstance bearing evident marks of the most 
pleasing and rapid improvements. From whence, and from what cause has this 
happy change taken place? Industry is the parent of this happy change."

So be quiet and get back to work.

Click here to see our fully illustrated description

Hardcover.  4"x6.5", 24 pages, bound in nice full leather with gilt spine 
decoration, light cover wear and rubbing, contents with very minor soil, 
trimmed just a bit closely, but not affecting text or page numbering; 
overall near fine. [12169] $4,500.00

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