Black Book; Or, Corruption Unmasked! Being An Account of All Places
Item #53441
[WADE, John]. The Black Book; Or, Corruption Unmasked! Being An Account of All Places, Pensions, and Sinecures, the Revenues of the Clergy and Landed Aristocrary; the Salaries and Emoluments in Courts of Justice and the Police Department; the Expenditure of the Civil List...with A Supplement and Appendix. The Whole Forming A Complete Exposition of the Cost, Influence, Patronage, and Corruption of the Borough Government. A New Edition, in Two Vols. London: John Fairburn, 1829. Two volumes: [2], 480; iv, 426, x, 44, [2] pp. Deckled edges. Bound in later black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Light scattered fox and wear, Very Good. A later printing of this significant contribution to the long struggle for political reform. "The Bible of the Reformers," the book is "a massive compendium of all the abuses, electoral, ecclesiastical, legal, which they sought to abolish. It was first published in 1820 and passed through edition after edition," with much addenda. PMM. Printing and the Mind of Man page 180.
Price: $250.00