John Smith: 'Songs written for and sung at the Anniversary o...

Hammer

£30

John Smith: 'Songs written for and sung at the Anniversary of the Revolution Sick Society during the last forty years.', Sheffield, A. Whitaker, 1841, 2nd edition, 60pp, contemporary calf gilt. A very scarce collection of radical verse, a Sheffield publication of which there were 3 editions, 1821, 1841 & 1857, basically Chartist in outlook, the protagonsists being the new and rising literate middle class of artisans, small manufacturers and professionals