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Meech, Thomas Cox.
From Mine to Ministry.
Publisher: North of England Newspaper Co., Ltd., Darlington;
Date of Publication: 1908
Stock Code: 11538
FIRST EDITION. Softcover octavo, pp. [12], 118, iv, [6] adverts to front and rear. Monochrome photographic frontispiece with eight further plates. Publisher’s orange, pictorial soft card wraps with titles to spine and upper wrap. Very good. Wraps a touch soiled, small closed tears to spine tips and upper wrap. A rare copy of the biography of Thomas Burt, the Northumbrian miner who rose through the ranks of the union to become the first miner elected as the M.P. for Morpeth in the 1874 election for Morpeth. He remained as M.P. for 44 years, campaigning for trade unions, land reform, Irish Home Rule and adult male suffrage. £80.00