Nicholls, Sir George:A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of...
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London: HMSO, 1843. Original green cloth with gilt titling to spine, vii/507pp, a very good+ copy. Includes some Irish interest.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&frac… Mehr…
London: HMSO, 1843. Original green cloth with gilt titling to spine, vii/507pp, a very good+ copy. Includes some Irish interest.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book., HMSO, 1843, New York: Harper Brothers, 1841. Two volume set bound in blindstamped dark blue cloth. Old circulating library sticker inside front cover of each volume and stamp on titlepage. Hinges tight and interior clean but for very light sporadic foxing, with only endpapers showing heavy toning. Two page catalog of books at rear of vol. I and 29 page catalog at rear of vol. II, as called for. A very nice set of the authors' extensive travels in England and his often scathing commentary on what he found there in 1840. From the Corn Laws to the Irish question Lester rebukes the supposedly civilized society which had given birth to so much that he obviously admires. Among the individuals whom he praises was a young author who had captured the popular imagination with The Pickwick Papers and Nickolas Nickelby. Introduced to Boz by Thomas Campbell, Lester includes a very detailed and sympathetic chapter of his visit to Dickens at his home. Cloth shows light soiling, albeit probably the nicest copy of this title we have yet to see, especially in the first American edition, which is often found in poor condition. Very good+.. Hardcover. Very Good+/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Harper Brothers, 1841, Dublin: James Duffy, 1844. Volume 1 only of two. Some fading to boards. Daniel O'Connell was born in Cahirciveen, County Kerry, on 6th August 1775. The O'Connell family were members of the Irish Catholic aristocracy in Ireland. Although Daniel's family were fairly wealthy, discriminatory legislation denied the O'Connell family status, opportunity and influence. In 1791 Maurice O'Connell, the head of the O'Connell clan, adopted Daniel and paid for him to attend the best Catholic colleges in Europe. This included periods at St. Omer and Douai. In 1794 O'Connell enrolled in Lincoln's Inn, London and two years later transferred to the King's Inn, Dublin. While in London O'Connell became interested in politics. He read a great deal and was influenced by the ideas of radicals such as Tom Paine, Jeremy Bentham and William Godwin. By the time he qualified as a lawyer in 1798 O'Connell was fully committed to religious tolerance, freedom of conscience, democracy and the separation of Church and State. In Ireland O'Connell developed a reputation for his radical political views. He became involved with the United Irishmen, a group that had been inspired by the French Revolution. During the 1798 insurrection, O'Connell feared he would be arrested by the English authorities and went into hiding in Kerry. Despite his radical views, O'Connell opposed the insurrection. He argued that the Irish people "were not sufficiently enlightened to hear the sun of freedom" and that the insurrection had decreased rather than increased the desire for Irish liberation. Instead of rebellion, O'Connell advocated using the machinery of Parliament to obtain political and religious equality. For the next ten years O'Connell ceased to be active in politics and concentrated on developing his law practice. It was not long before O'Connell was the most successful and famous barrister in Ireland. Gradually he returned to politics and by 1815 he was acknowledged as the leader of the Catholic Emancipation movement. In 1823 O'Connell, Richard Lalor Sheil and Thomas Wyse formed the Catholic Association. O'Connell turned it into a mass organisation by inviting the poor to become associate members for a shilling a year. Catholic priests were encouraged to advertise the Catholic Association and were employed as recruiting agents. The Catholic Association campaigned for the repeal of the Act of Union, the end of the Irish tithe system, universal suffrage and a secret ballot for parliamentary elections. Although O'Connell rejected the use of violence he constantly warned the British government that if reform did not take place, the Irish masses would start listening to the "counsels of violent men". By 1826 the Catholic Association began supporting candidates in parliamentary elections. They had some spectacular victories, including O'Connell defeating C.E. Vesty Fitzgerald, President of the Board of Trade, in a County Clare by-election. However, as a Catholic, O'Connell was not allowed to take his seat in the House of Commons. Radical MPs such as Sir Francis Burdett and Joseph Hume, had been arguing for some years that Parliament should bring an end to anti-Catholic legislation. After O'Connell's victory, even Tories such as Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington began arguing for reform. They warned their Conservative colleagues that here would be civil war in Ireland unless the law was changed. In 1829 the British Parliament passed the Roman Catholic Relief Act, which granted Catholic Emancipation and enabled O'Connell to be elected as representative for Kerry in 1830. However, the government also outlawed the Catholic Association and eliminated the traditional forty-shilling freehold suffrage in Ireland. In the 1830s Daniel O'Connell became a major figure in the House of Commons. He was active in the campaigns for prison and law reform, free trade, the abolition of slavery and Jewish emancipation. He was also a prominent figure in the campaign for universal suffrage.. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library., James Duffy, 1844, London: British Government. Very Good. 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the original Journal # 78 issued in 1846. Index pp 1345 - 1462. Items of note: This Journal is devoted mostly to British, Scottish & Irish Railways; Poor Laws (Ireland) . Blue paper covered boards over brown leather spine with raised bands, title & volume number labels. Light shelf wear consisting of rubbing and scuffing of edges. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Light foxing first & last few pages only. Please enquire if interested in other 19 Century Journals Rare Section, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1462 pages ., British Government, 1846, 2007. Influential Study of English Poor Law by an Important Reformer Nicholls, Sir George. A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People. Originally published: London: P.S. King, 1904. 2 Vols. lxxvii, 384 pp; vii, 460 pp. [With] Mackay, Thomas. A History of the English Poor Law. Volume 3: From 1834 to the present time [1904]. Being a Supplementary Volume to "A History of the English Poor Law. xv, 617 pp. Together 3 Volumes. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776918; ISBN-10: 1584776919. Hardcover. New. * Reprint of the final edition containing revisions made by the author and a biography, along with the supplementary volume by Thomas Mackay. Nicholls [1781-1865] was a pioneering poor-law reformer and administrator. While Great Britain's Poor Law Commissioner he drafted the Irish Poor-Law Act (1832). One of the first to assert that relief bred a culture of dependency and a resistance to work, he advocated the abolition of relief except as a last resort. In addition to the present study he wrote A History of the Scotch Poor Law (1856) and A History of the Irish Poor Law (1856), both of which are available in reprint editions by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Like his other studies, this one relates the evolution of poor laws since the medieval era to economic, social and political history. Notably sophisticated works, they were held in high regard by Sir Leslie Stephen and F.W. Maitland., 2007<
