The king and the cabinet-maker
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Type of record: Book
Title: The king and the cabinet-maker
Classmark: Bedford Collection A914
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Butts, William (Former owner); Shearcroft, Essex (Printer)
Related people: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Publisher: Shearcroft, printer
Publication city: Bocking and Braintree [Essex]
Date(s): [1831-32]
Language: English
Size and medium: [1] page
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/748123
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020075997405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Printed on one side only. Broadside satirical poem, 20 stanzas each with 4 lines about the issues surrounding the passing of the 1832 [Great] Reform Act. First lines: Our patriot King, when he came to his crown, Sat uneasily in his state chair. Final lines: If you wish that your King should sit firm on the throne, And would make him more glorious still, Vote only for those who will bind themselves down, To vote for your King and his Bill. The king is William IV (1830-37) and the poem references the Duke of Wellington, Tory Prime Minister 1828-1830 and opponent of parliamentary reform, and Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Whig reformer and Prime Minister 1830-1834.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A914: loose single sheet printed broadside.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A914: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Faint nineteenth-century MS. inscription on verso of broadside, suggesting an address or possibly a receipt: Mr[?] [?] Cooper Stores[?] in [?] London shall[?] [?] Dec[?].... MS. inscription on verso of broadside in pencil: William Butts Philip Lane London W[?].
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