[WADE, JOHN, editor]. The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland; Civil List and Crown Revenues; Incomes, Privileges, and Power, of the Aristocracy... By the Origianl Editor [i.e. John Wade]. London: Effingham Wilson, 1831. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, nineteenth century calf gilt, extremities rubbed; front hinge cracked. PMM 296.

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[WADE, JOHN, editor]. The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland; Civil List and Crown Revenues; Incomes, Privileges, and Power, of the Aristocracy... By the Origianl Editor [i.e. John Wade]. London: Effingham Wilson, 1831. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, nineteenth century calf gilt, extremities rubbed; front hinge cracked. PMM 296.

拍品專文

"The edition cited here was the most influential, coming as it did on the eve of the Reform Bill (1832). For the Black Book was above all a practical document, and its emphasis on the need to have practical as well as equitable representation lies at the root of parliamentary democracy."--PMM 296.