[Rarebooks] fa: CORN LAWS - TRACTS & PARLIAMENTARY REPORT 1814-28 - 2 Vols. in Original Boards

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Petitions  
Relating to the Corn Laws of the Kingdom: Together with the Minutes of  
Evidence and an Appendix of Accounts. London: James Ridgway, 1814.  
Original publisher's binding of blue paper-covered boards and paper  
spine; 8vo; iv + 260 + xlvi pp. [WITH:] Tracts Relating to the Corn  
Trade and Corn Laws: Including the Second Report Ordered to be Printed  
by the Two Houses of Parliament. By William Jacob, Esq. F.R.S. London:  
John Murray, 1828. Original publisher's binding of blue paper-covered  
boards and paper spine and spine label; 8vo; vi + [2] + 293 + 85 + 41  
+ [1] pp.; folding table.

Two volumes related to the England's notorious early 19th-century corn  
laws, untrimmed in original publisher's boards. First title lacking  
the original paper spine label, hinges starting to split at the ends  
but boards are secure, loss to a patch of the blue paper covering the  
bottom corner of the rear board; original owner's neat notations to  
the list of Witnesses Examined; otherwise contents very clean and  
fresh. Second title with two additional, separately paginated  
sections: "Notices Respecting the Commerce of the Black Sea and of the  
Sea of Azoff; More Especially as Regards the Trade in Wheat" and  
"Observations on the Benefits Arising from the Cultivation of Poor  
Soils by the Application of Pauper Labor..." Both boards detached,  
wear and chipping to the spine and spine label, front endpaper  
partially loose, a few small spots,  otherwise clean and sound.