Shaftesbury and the working children : a collection of contemporary documents / edited by John Langdon-Davies
1964. London : Jonathan Cape. Very good portfolio with loose leaves, some folded. Portfolio slightly dust-dulled and rubbed. Contents remain particularly well-preserved; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #411931
Physical description; 1 portfolio : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 x 35 cm. Series; Jackdaw ; no. 7. Notes; Comprises a portfolio containing 1 introductory sheet; 9 facsimile reproductions of contemporary documents; 7 explanatory broadsides in portfolio. Contents; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, from the painting by G.F. Watts -- Facsimile of a tribute to Shaftesbury from "The Graphic Magazine" of October 1885 -- Life in the mill: a montage of contemporary prints -- Life down the mine: a montage of contemporary engravings -- A broadside decribing a colliery explosion, with a contemporary wood-engraving -- a publicity sheet for an early chimney-sweeping machine, 1804 -- Enlarged wood-engraving of a Ragged School of the 1850s -- Selected illustrations and text from Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor", 1851-61 -- The struggle against child slavery 1802-1874, a chart giving details of legislation. Subjects; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of 1801-1885. Social reformers Great Britain. Child labor Great Britain History 19th century ; Sources. Great Britain History. Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.
Price: €48.00