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Shipping News Extraordinary!

1820 · 004064 — <p>Exeter: S. Hedgeland Printer 1820. Single side printed broadside approximately 210mm x 335mm in size. Lightly creased with some minor offsetting small tear to foot but generally quite bright and clean. Political satire relating to the Cato Street conspiracy dressed as a shipping news announcement. The boat 'Revolutionaire' is suffering from dry-rot "owing to her principal Supporters being of 'Thistle-wood' instead of Heart of Oak" with the stores of the boat "consisting of Hand Grenades Pikes Daggers Cutlasses and Shoe-Maker's Knives will be put up to Auction; and have for that purpose been lately removed into a Stable in Cato-Street for convenience of sale". Mention is also made of the Manchester radicals and White Hats probably relating to Peterloo and Henry Hunt. Unrecorded. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside.</p> S. Hedgeland [Printer] paperback