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John Frost: A Study in Chartism (Documents in Social History series)

Author(s):

Williams, David

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Yes

Dust Jacket Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Augustus M Kelley

Publication Year:

1969

Publication Place:

New York, NY, USA

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

044749

Catalogue(s):

£16.40

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Facsimile reprint of the original 1939 publication. xii, 356pp, with monochrome portrait frontispiece. Grey cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed in at spine tail. Traces of dustiness to text block edges. Minor bump affecting the top corner of the front free endpaper and the next leaf, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original shelf worn dust jacket, heavily bumped and rubbed along the upper edge, rubbed at the base of spine, a little soiled.

A full length biography of John Frost, the prominent leader of the Chartist Movement in South Wales in the first part of the 19th century, and of the events that led up to the attack on the Westgate Hotel in Newport in November 1839. Frost took a prominent part in the riot, after which he was arrested and tried for treason, and sentenced to transportation for life.

Keywords:

Chartism, 19th Century, Social History, British History, Popular Resistance, John Frost, Newport, Universal Suffrage, Westgate Hotel, Parliamentary Reform,