Drop title Country Book Club. / Rules
183844981County of Wexford Ireland 1838. Small printed handbill accomplished in manuscript 18.5x12.5cm. mounted to slightly larger leaf 21.5x14cm. Some foxing and chips along extremities none approaching text else Very Good. Circulating handbill for members of the Country Book Club issued to accompany the shared copy of "A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in the United States Upper and Lower Canada New Brunswick and Nova Scotia" by Edward Thomas Coke published in two volumes in 1832 and 1833. Listed are nineteen members of the Club both men and women who were allotted ten days with the book before being required to pass it along to the next member lest they receive a "Fine for keeping a Book beyond the Time Two-Pence per Day. Sixpence for omitting to date. No Member is allowed to lend a Book belonging to this Society under a Penalty of One-fourth of its original cost." Below the rules the handbill is separated into three columns listing in print the names of the nineteen members save the last "Mr. Hodgson Cadogan" which is in manuscript together with columns for date "received" and "sent away" which are accomplished in manuscript in each member's hand showing that the book in question was enjoyed by all but one reader between February 20 and September 22 1838. It should be noted that five members kept the book beyond their ten days Mr. John Cookson being the most egregious offender holding onto "A Subaltern's Furlough" from July 7th until August 1st. Location based on member Lady Mary Monck daughter of Henry Monck first Earl of Rathdowne 1785-1848. unknown books
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