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Grey, [Charles] Earl & Harding, W. (editor).
The Speech of Earl Grey, Delivered in the House of Lords, October 3, 1831, On the Second Reading of the English Reform Bill.
Publisher: W.Harding, London;
Date of Publication: 1831
Stock Code: 6923
New Edition, Corrected and Revised. Octavo, pp. 16. Original publisher’s printed yellow wraps with black titles and decorative border, publishers’ catalogue to rear cover. Frontispiece portrait engraving of High Chancellor of England Baron Brougham & Vaux retaining tissue guard. Covers lightly surface soiled with nicks & creases and very minor loss to edge. Minor corner creasing and soiling to edge of leaves otherwise contents clean and bright. Earl Grey’s famous speech in favour of reform, in a “Genuine Verbatim Edition” (from front cover). The Great Reform Act, finally passed the following year in 1832, introduced changes to the parliamentary system including reductions in long-standing abuses such as seats in depopulated Rotten Boroughs, and creating seats in modern industrial towns, previously unrepresented. In addition, the franchise was extended by altering the voting criteria so that the electorate roughly doubled in size, though many residents were still unable to cast a vote. A rare ephemeral survivor - COPAC
locates just a single printed copy in the UK, at Senate House Library. £85.00