English Associations of Working Men

First English Edition. xvi, 472pp. Deep brown endpapers. In deep brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine (a little rubbed at edges, rounded on corners and rubbed and worn at spine ends). Gutters cracked between endpapers. There are light pencil annotation in the margins and some pencil underlining at points throughout the text. Previous owner's name on title page. A little loose. Two newspaper clipping have been pinned in to the index, one dated October 1891 regarding the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr Speaker Peel, to Burnley where he made remarks about mechanics' institutions; and a second dated October1891, regarding The German Social Congress and its adoption of a new labour policy. Two letters loosely laid in, one dated October 1891, from J J Stockall, a watch and clock maker of Clerkenwell Road in London, to an unknown recipient, discussing, among other things, Mr Gladstone's remarks and the conditions of the working man; and another, dated 1906, from one T Hall Hall to Edward Moon, thanking him for the loan of the book.