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675581980. 920 vols. of 967 lacking 47 vols. 154 linear feet. 920 vols. of 967 lacking 47 vols. 154 linear feet. Debates in the House of Commons 1909-1980 Great Britain. Parliament. Parliamentary Debates Official House of Commons. London: Printed for the Controller of H.M.S.O. 1909-1980. Vols. 1-362; 406-701; 704-898; 900-965; 967. Together 920 volumes. Lacking vols. 363-405 702 703 899 and 966. One hundred fifty-four 154 linear feet of shelf space. Contemporary cloth blind frames to boards blind fillets and gilt titles to spine a few volumes bound in similar-style later cloth. Light to moderate shelfwear some hinges cracked or starting interiors clean. Ex-law school library. Shelf location labels to foot of spines property stamps to edges bookplates and other markings to pastedowns and endleaves. $1995. New Series. Authorized by Parliament this series was the successor to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates which succeeded the series commenced by William Cobbett in 1804. unknown
201299461Korero Books. New. 2012. Hardcover. 1907621083 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 256 pp. ; 546 illus. 499 in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Korero Books hardcover
0121281st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 42 Volumes Of The Tasmanian Statutes From 1960 - 1996 With 3 Volumes 1974 - 1976 Missing . Volumes 1960 - 1973 Are Bound In Cloth All In Very Good Order . Volumes 1977 - 1980 Are Leather Bound Volumes 1981 - 1984 Are Cloth Volumes 1985 - 1996 Are Leather With The Exception Of 1988 Which Is Cloth A Number Of Volumes Are In Two Parts . The Leather On Several Volumes Has Discolored <br/> <br/> hardcover
176248611S.l.: s.n. 1762 y Roma: L'Imprimerie de la Chambre Apostolique 1773 la Bula de Clemente XIV.- Las cinco partes con paginación independiente 199 p.; 16 p.; 148 p.; 19 p.; 26 p.; 8º menor 17 x 10 cm; Clara impresión sobre papel verjurado; Texto en francés; Enc. de la época en Holandesa Pergamino cortes pintados en color granate.- MUY RARO. La encuadernación algo rozada en los ángulos externos. En la portada una firma manuscrita de la época que no toca texto. Dicho esto la obra se encuentra muy buen estado. Libro de alta significación documental e histórica que constituye un testimonio material clave sobre la persecución judicial parlamentaria y finalmente eclesiástica contra los jesuitas. La bula del Papa Clemente XIV es Primera Edición. HISTORIA Y POLÃTICA DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XXI E HISTORIAS GENERALES EXTRANJERAS Livre en français Sin Editorial hardcover
181225333London: The House of Commons. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding poor. Front board detached. Spine leather worn with 75mm loss and 65mm piece of spine detached and loose. Text block very good. Ex-library General Assembly Library New Zealand. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. Library bookplate on front endpaper with rubber stamp "Withdrawn from Parliamentary Library". Rubber stamp on title page "General Assembly Library APR 1899". ; 117 1 blank pages. Half morocco binding with front board detached and spine poor. Folio. Page dimensions: 333 x 202mm. Without original blue wrappers. Page edges sprinkled red. References: Wantrup 38 pp. 108-9 - "The first important document from the Macquarie era is a Parliamentary Paper of major significance in the early history of Australia. . . . In its 118 foolscap folio pages this report includes a transcript of the evidence given by many notable witnesses. Among them were ex-Governor Hunter ex-Governor Bligh his deposer the now plain Mr George Johnston the famous navigator Matthew Flinders the first fleet chaplain Reverend Richard Johnson and many other colonial officials."; Ferguson 543 . The House of Commons hardcover
184291013London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1842. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good because of fragile repaired map. 2 vols. 4 folding maps 3 in Part I and one in Part II xxvi 744 637p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Covers intact but rather heavily scuffed and rubbed. Bookplates removed on both front pastedowns. Contents generally sound and clean although the large folding map of the coast of West Africa in Part Volume II is fragile. That map had split apart along many of the original folds and elsewhere. While it had been carefully put back together it needs careful handling when folding or unfolding to keep nthe map intact. These volumes contain a wealth of material about British trade and administrative activities in Gambia Sierra Leone and Gold Coast the three areas of particular British interest and control in West Africa at that time -- Lagos and other pieces of what is now modern Nigeria were still outside British influence and control in 1842 and Benin hadn't yet been grabbed by Germany before passing to Great Britain after World War I. These volumes also contain quite a bit of information about British efforts to suppress and end the slave trade. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed hardcover
1789187101789. Committee of the Whole House of the British Parliament investigation into the Atlantic slave trade recorded in Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House to Whom It Was Referred to Consider of the Slave Trade published 1789 to 1791 presenting one of the earliest parliamentary documentary compilations addressing the operation and human consequences of the transatlantic slave trade. The volumes preserve testimony gathered during parliamentary inquiries that examined the practices of British slave traders and the treatment of enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic. These proceedings formed part of the political campaign in Britain that eventually culminated in the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. The collected evidence includes statements from ship surgeons naval officers merchants and other witnesses whose accounts describe the conditions experienced by enslaved Africans during capture transport and plantation labor.<br /> <br /> Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House To Whom It Was Referred to Consider of the Slave Trade. London: 1789-1791. First edition first printing. Four volumes bound in two books. The compilation reproduces testimony presented before Parliament concerning the organization and operation of the slave trade and includes firsthand statements describing the physical suffering and resistance of enslaved Africans during transport. Surgeon Alexander Falcon-Bridge who had firsthand experience aboard slave ships described acts of despair among captives: he "Has known several enslaved persons to refuse sustenance with a design to starve themselves. refusing to take medicines when sick because they wished to die. Many other slaves expressed the same." Another witness Royal Navy surgeon Thomas Trotter recorded the emotional trauma experienced by captives during embarkation noting that "Slaves on being brought on board showed signs of extreme distress and despair from a feeling of their situation and regret at being torn from friends and connections." The volumes therefore preserve testimony that exposed the violence and human suffering embedded within the Atlantic slave trading system.<br /> <br /> During the eighteenth century European and American traders transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic through a commercial system that relied on maritime networks linking West Africa the Caribbean and the Americas. Parliamentary investigations of the slave trade in the late eighteenth century were fueled in part by abolitionist activism and public campaigns demanding government inquiry into the practice. Publications of witness testimony such as this abridged parliamentary record circulated evidence used by reformers advocating the end of the trade. Four volumes bound in two books with folding table in the fourth volume. Octavo format. Contemporary marbled quarter calf bindings with modern bookplates on the front past down. Wear present with most spine titles lacking and foxing primarily affecting the title pages; text remains clear. Overall condition very good. unknown
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1764100735Pamphlet format small folio disbound. Five acts lacking separate titles but complete appears to be two extra tittle pages a few tears and corner folds one act with margin tear not affecting text minor some soiling; otherwise very good. This is an interesting collection of Parliamentary Acts relating to America during the reign of George III. While most of the acts are from the colonial period there is also some Revolutionary War material. There are several acts concerning the importation of rice from South Carolina and Georgia and others that relate to importation of wheat beaver skins and tea into the colonies. Others address the quartering of troops in the colonies as well as better pay for soldiers and dealing with mutiny and desertion. Additionally several acts refer to a continuation of the right of the king to secure and detain people charged with or suspected of "high treason" and for the exchange of American prisoners brought to Great Britain. Mark Baskett; Charles Eyre and William Strahan
1900K3ME5C11OCGBLondon: Harrison and sons 1900. Bound as sewn. Folio. With a folding lithographed map with some coloured details. Diplomatic document presented to the Houses of Parliament on the trade of the Ethiopian cities Addis Ababa and Harar. It includes many letterpress tables showing imported and exported tradeware its quantities prices and origin occasionally with some other remarks. The maps shows various trade routes from the two cities to other cities towns and ports. In very good condition. Harrison and sons, unknown
Z1-V-012-01497House of Commons. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear and may have sticker on cover but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. House of Commons unknown
17741353592London: J. Almon 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 2 63 pages 4. In Very Good minus condition. Pamphlet later bound in light blue boards. Boards show light plus age-toning to edges and spine with black lettering on spine. <br /> Text block shows moderate age-toning to edges light plus age-toning throughout interiorly and a 1-in. closed tear to title page along fore-edge. Four pages of publisher's ads appear at back. Lacking half-title page. RW Consignment. Shelved in Case 1. Authorship of this tract has been variously attributed to Arthur Lee William Pitt the Elder and Benjamin Franklin. While Benjamin Franklin submitted the text to J. Almon for publication it is generally accepted that Lee was the author. Arthur Lee was a pro-American Member of Parliament and writes here in defense of colonial rights and liberties. References: Sabin 39697; Adams 74-44a. 1353592. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. J. Almon hardcover
1829elala1084np: 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 3index 4-255. modern calf covers bit discoloured. The majority of the grievances were directed at the authoritarian regime of Lord Dalhousie as governor of Lower Canada and Governor-in-Chief of British North America 1820-28 when he was recalled. Included are grievances relating to Dalhousies establishment of a new Quebec Gazette his censure of Sir Francis Burton for having sanctioned a Bill of Supply his dismissal of militia officers and exercise of intimidation during elections his dismissal of justices of the peace and the unfair manner of jury selection. "Among other things the Montreal petitioners complained that contrary to the laws of England juries both grand and petty and both King's Bench and Quarter Sessions were being drawn exclusively from the town of Montreal rather than from the district at large. The committee chaired by Denis-Benjamin Viger concluded that this practice of jurors being "selected or as it were packed - summoned exclusively from among the inhabitants of a particular place or from a particular class - cannot be more compatible with liberty than it is with the rules of impartial justice. It is repugnant to every principle of our government and can only tend to the overthrow of the constitution of the country .The executive's control over the process of selecting juries became for the Patriotes yet another symbol of despotism and of the attempted exclusion of canadiens from their democratic rights given that they predominated in the countryside; a number of highly political jury trials for libel and sedition did nothing to help matters. The controversy only began to die down from 1830 when James Kempt ordered that jurors be drawn from the body of the district; the denouement came in 1832 when the legislature adopted a law regulating the qualification and selection of jurors " Donald Fyson Grand Juries Political Power And Citizenship In Quebec And Lower Canada 1764-1830 a paper for the 77th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Ottawa May 1998TPL 1549. Sabin 10568. cfCasey I 1279. Not in Dionne Gagnon or Lande. np: 1829. unknown
17678138London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1767. Collection of Acts of Parliament printed between 1767 and 1812 legislating on Britain's relationship with its American colonies and subsequently the newly fledged United States. These Acts are disbound and altogether the 25 Acts run to 114 pages. Subjects under British law include the vexed problem of taxation on imports from North America RiceSago and Vermicelli rice etc mutinous troops in the American colonies and laws regarding the transport of 'Rice from South and North Carolina and Georgia directly to any Part of America to the Southward of the said Provinces' 1769 Tea exports to Ireland are dealt with in an act of 1777 and two years later there is an Act designed to raise funds for the loyalist side in the Revolutionary War. The early 19th century group of Acts continues to dealwith the regulation of imports to Britain from the United States and cross-border trade into Canada. $1500 London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1767 Anno Septimo Cap XXX - An Act for allowing the free Importation of Rice Sago Powder and Vermicelli from North America 4pp; 1767 Anno Septimo Cap LV - An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters 4pp; 1767 Anno Octavo Cap III - for the free Importation of Indian Corn or Maize from any of His Majesty's Colonies in America 4pp; 1768 Anno Octavo Cap IX - An Act for the Importation of Salted Beef etc. from the British Dominions in America 4pp; 1768 Anno Nono Cap IV - An Act to allow for a further Time the free Importation of Rice into this Kingdom from His Majesties Colonies in North America 4pp; 1768 Anno Nono Cap IX - to continue an Act for Importation of Salted Beef Pork Bacon and Butter from Ireland and from the British Dominions in America 4pp; 1769 Anno Nono Cap XVIII - An Act for amending An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion 4pp; 1769 Anno Nono Cap XXVII - for granting a Liberty to carry Rice from South and North Carolina and Georgia directly to any Part of America to the Southward of the said Provinces 4pp; 1777 Anno Decimo Septimo Cap XXVII - Drawback of the Duties of Customs on the Exportation of Tea to Ireland 6pp; 1777 Anno Decimo Septimo Cap XXXIV - for the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to serve in His Majesty's Ships of War 4pp; 1777 Anno Decimo Septimo Cap XLIV - An Act encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several counties of Great Britain encouraging the manufacture of Leather allowing Timber and Wood to be exported from the Island of Dominica allowing a Bounty on the Exportation of British-made Cordage 6pp; 1778 Anno Decimo Octavo Cap LV - to permit the Exportation of Goods directly from Ireland into any British Plantation in America or any British Settlement on the Coast of Africa; Fisheries and Navigation of Ireland 8pp; 1778 Anno Decimo Octavo Cap LVIII - to the preventing the Clandestine Conveyance of Sugar and Paneles from the British Colonies and Plantations in America 6pp; 1779 Anno Decimo Nono Cap XLI - granting a Drawback of Duties upon all foreign Wines exported from Great Britain to any British Colony in America or the East Indies 4pp; 1779 Anno Decimo Nono Cap LXXI - An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament 23pp; 1801 Anno Quadragesimo Primo Cap LXXVII - the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador 3pp; 1801 Anno Quadragesimo Primo Cap XCVII - An Act to continue several Laws relating to encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland at the Greenland Seas and Davis Streights to the making of the Port of Saint John's in the Island of Antigua a free Port and to permitting the Importation of Goods from Countries in America belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign or State 4pp; 1806 Anno Quadragesimo Sexto Cap XVII - to permit the Exportation to the United Kingdom of Wool from the British Plantations in America 2pp; 1807 Anno Quadragesimo Septimo Cap XXXVIII - the Importation of certain enumerated Articles eg Scantling Planks Squared Timber Horses Neat Cattle Gypsum Grind Stones etc into the British Colonies on the Continent of North America 2pp; 1808 Anno Quadragesimo Octavo Cap XXI - to empower Commissioners appointed for distributing the Money paid by the United States of America 2pp; 1809 Anno Quadragesimo Nono Cap XLVII - to permit certain Articles the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe to be laden and shipped on board Ships arriving with British North American Produce 3pp; 1810 Anno Quinquagesimo Cap XII - for permitting the Importation of Masts Yards Bowsprits and Timber for Naval Purposes 2pp; 1810 Anno Quinquagesimo Cap XIII - for permitting the Exportation of Salt from the Port of Nassau the Port of Exuma and the Port of Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands Sugar and Coffee 2pp; 1811 Anno Quinquagesimo Primo Cap XCVII - to regulate the Trade between Places in Europe South of Cape Finisterre and certain Ports in the British Colonies in North America 3pp; 1812 Anno Quadragesimo Secundo Cap LV - to Prevent Foreign Goods of Certain Descriptions being brought from the United States of America into Canada; and to allow a greater Quantity of Worsted Yarn to be exported from Great Britain to Canada 2pp. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1767 George Eyre and Andrew Strahan hardcover
166715762London: n.p. 1667. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. London 1667. 4to. 5-1/2 x 7-1/2'. 32pp. Bound to style in quarter leather; maroon lettering label gilt; marbled paper boards in a Stormont design. Light blindstamp of a seminary library on title and marginal acquisition number two tiny closed marginal tears on the title one of the affecting the 'e' of 'Printed' else a very good copy. Wing T.2471. ESTC R23832. n.p. hardcover
16541292706London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield 1654. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo 269 2 pages. In Good plus condition. Rebound in modern burgundy buckram gilt lettering on spine. 20 136 121-269 3. Contemporary bookplate on verso of title page of Thomas Brotherton of Hey. Small bookworm hole to upper fore corner does not impact text page wavy and tape repaired tear to ffep. Title page in red and black. Includes index. Preface signed: T.F. i.e. Thomas Fuller. ESTC Citation No. R23317 Wing F2422; JG consignment. Shelved Room G. 1292706. Special Collections. John Williams and Francis Eglesfield hardcover
18603220414<i>Wood-engraved single sheet panorama in four strips 565 x 450 mm crudely coloured and folded with title at top left some splitting to joints; </i><i>in the original green publisher's wrapper titled in black lower wrapper lacking some chipping to edges and lightly dust-soiled but a remarkable survival nonetheless.</i><br /><i><br /></i>Rare panorama depicting the State Opening of Parliament likely sold on the day to crowds lining the procession route. The panorama itself presented as four strips one above the other on a single sheet has been printed from the same blocks as another we have seen by T. Goode but with new references set beneath the panorama image see below.<br /><i><br /></i>The procession advances from right to left with the Queen accompanied by Prince Albert and captioned where appropriate: 'Entrance to Parliament House'; 'Beefeaters'; 'Carriage of the Prime Minister'; 'Herald'; 'Her Majesty's Spokeman's Carriage'; 'Officer of the Life Guardsmen'; 'Queen's Carriage'; 'Life Guardsmen'; and 'Lord John Russell's Carriage.' The procession advances from r. to l. The Queen is accompanied by Prince Albert. Earlier the block for 'Beefeaters' had been used for T. Goode's 'Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show'; as too had the block for 'Her Majesty's Spokesman's Carriage' previously uncaptioned and 'Lord John Russell's Carriage' previously 'The Recorder in his Carriage' explaining why Lord Russell seems to be holding a mace. It would be the Horse Guards who would have taken part in the procession; the beefeaters would have been awaiting the monarch in the House of Lords. <br /><i><br /></i>It is curious to note that the 'Entrance to Parliament House' bears no resemblance to the Royal Entrance in Victoria Tower and instead looks more like the Soane entrance but that was destroyed in the fire of 1838 so perhaps more evidence of earlier blocks being repurposed.<br /><i><br /></i>In the London directories William Sutton's name replaces Georgina Duggan's at 2 Bartlett's Passage in 1860. The Prime Minister at the time was Palmerston and Lord John Russell was Foreign Secretary. The panorama also represents one of the final depictions of Queen Victoria accompanied by Prince Albert who died in 1861.<br /><br />Not in OCLC. W. Sutton, (late G. Duggan,) 2, Bartlett’s Passage, Bartlett’s Buidlings, Holborn, W.C.
1875981F12London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1875-1876. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 15" by 11.5". None. Three volumes of highly informative first edition statistical returns detailing land ownership in late 19th century England Wales and Scotland. The first two volumes in this set are 'England and Wales Exclusive of the Metropolis. Return of Owners of Land 1873' complete in two volumes. Volume I: Bedford to Norfolk; Volume II: Northamton to Radnor.This is a statistical return listing for each county in England and Wales excluding London detailing: the names and holdings of all landowners with one acre or more showing acreage and annual rental value; the total number and combined acreage and rental value of owners with less than one acre; and the estimated area of commons and waste land.The third volume is the scarce 'Return of Owners Land of One Acre and Upwards in the Several Counties Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland' offering the same information for Ireland. This is essentially a modern Domesday book of Ireland with long lists of the names of Landowners and the values of the land. The lists were returned to the Local Government Board by the end of 1875 arranged into counties alphabetized and finally published in 1876. Since the returns include the names of small landowners as well as large owners of a few acres as well as great estates they stand as a census of a large proportion of the population of Ireland in 1876.In handsome half morocco bindings with cloth covered boards.With a supplement to the start of volumes I and III.These volumes offer detailed statistical insight into land distribution in England Wales and Ireland in the late 19th century. In half morocco bindings with cloth covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail and raised band with board perimeters age toned with handling marks. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
1819AQ27617London: s.n. 1819. 5pp 1. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Three old horizontal folds. An apparently unrecorded parliamentary bill proposing amendments to the 1750 Act for extending and improving the Trade to Africa specifically reducing the number of committee members and restraining the trade opportunities of the African Company of Merchants. The bill was seemingly never enacted.; the Company was abolished in 1821 with all assets passing to the Crown. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1804157362London: R. Wilks 1804. First edition. This Act published at the outset of the Napoleonic Wars and intended as a temporary measure permitting the enlistment of non-British officers and retrospectively formalized the commissions of any who had been serving until its passing. We have located only four institutional copies on WorldCat at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek King's College London the British Library and ULB Darmstadt. The text of the act is followed by Rules and Articles for the Better Government of such of our Forces as Shall Consist of Natives of Foreign States who now are or may at any Future Period be Enlisted into our Service. This outlines the regulations all serving British officers and henceforth all foreigners in the army would be subject to. The act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act of 1872. Octavo pp. xxxvii iii 292 lacking pp. 112-21. Text in English and German. Original grey boards white paper backstrip printed paper labels on both boards. Nineteenth-century ink shelf mark on spine. Binding worn spine cords exposed inner hinges cracked front inner hinge stablized contents lightly toned rear endpaper stained: a good copy. hardcover
1936mon0000038591HMSO 1936-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear. Colouring of page edges due to age. HMSO paperback
183119854London 1831. FIRST PRINTING. Drop title; with a number of contemporary annotations corrections on Schedules A and B pp. 26-27. Sewn as issued preserved in a folding case. First printing of the final revisions to the Great Reform Bill. This was the second bill put up for a Parliamentary vote. The initial version of the bill March 1831 was rejected by Parliament.<br /> <br /> The Great Reform Bill of 1831 also known as the Reform Act was a significant piece of legislation in the United Kingdom aimed at addressing the deficiencies in the electoral system. Before the bill representation in Parliament was heavily skewed with many industrial cities lacking adequate representation while rural areas held disproportionate power. The bill sought to expand the electorate improve representation and reduce the influence of "rotten boroughs" which were sparsely populated constituencies that had the same voting power as more populous areas.<br /> <br /> The bill proposed to extend the franchise to more men particularly those in the burgeoning middle class and aimed to redistribute parliamentary seats to reflect population changes especially due to the industrial revolution. Although it faced fierce opposition from the House of Lords public pressure and widespread protests highlighted the demand for reform. The rejection of the initial version of the bill led to a wave of public agitation and a second attempt which was again passed by the House of Commons and rejected by the House of Lords. Ultimately this third version passed after the government threatened to create new peers to secure its approval in the House of Lords. <br /> <br /> The Great Reform Bill marked a pivotal moment in British political history laying the groundwork for future electoral reforms and increasing public participation in the democratic process. unknown
1836elala1147<p>Toronto: R.Reynolds Printer 1836. 1836. 8vo. pp. 256 4. original cloth-backed bds. short split in upper front joint covers spotted some scattered light foxing. A scarce and important report. Charles Duncombe a prominent American-born physician and politician in Upper Canada was appointed in 1835 to visit and report upon the systems of education pursued in the United States and to offer recommendations for the educational institutions of Upper Canada. His report pp. 68 in which he stresses the need for practical education and adequate financial support for common schools and teacher education is followed by a lengthy appendix of supporting documentation pp. 69-256. Although Duncombe's proposals were not immediately implemented many would be introduced under the administration of Egerton Ryerson and would form the basis of Ontario educational policy until 1871 i.e. local assessment elective school boards female education the creation of normal schools non-sectarian religious instruction &c. Fleming 1059. Gagnon I 1201. Sabin 21268. TPL 2011. DCB IX pp. 228-32. Hardcover.</p> Toronto: R.Reynolds, Printer, 1836. hardcover
190095179London: HMSO 1900. Hardcover as now bound; all were originally issued as softcovers. Good. Modern red cloth. 34 cm. 1 5 p.; 2 iv 59p.; 3 2 folding maps iii 57p.; 4. 51p.; 5. 33p.; 6 9p.; 7 19p.; 8 5p.; 9 43p.; 10 6p.; 11 2 maps both titled Index Plan 147p. Condition of individual papers vary with some chipped edge-wear soiling etc. Some leaves browned and brittle with chipping in railroad report as if high acid paper was used for those leaves. We found various paginations for the final document but our contents seem consistent with most. Original wrappers if any not preserved. HMSO hardcover
1829elala1046Quebec: Re-Printed by Order of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 377. partly unopened in later cloth some foxing throughout. The report p. 1-10 is dated July 22 1828 and is followed by minutes of evidence May 8-July 15 1828 pp. 11-328 and an appendix of supporting documents pp. 329-77. Among the witnesses listed on p. iii are Samuel Gale Edward Ellice John Neilson Denis Benjamin Viger amd Austin Cuvillier. The British parliamentary Canada Committee was set up in 1828 to study the grievances of Upper and Lower Canada. "Its major recommendations were that a tax should be imposed on unimproved lands held by speculators; that the laws customs and religion of the French Canadians should be respected that the crown revenues should be surrendered to the colonial Houses of Assembly in exchange for a Civil List; that steps should be taken to sell the Clergy Reserves and to divide the proceeds fairly among all Protestant denominations; and that the revenue from the Jesuits Estates should be used for education." Story p. 145 TPL 1486. Dionne III 217. Lande 385. Sabin 10576. cfGagnon I 2989. Quebec: Re-Printed by Order of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, 1829. hardcover
