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[003913] [Greville, C. C.]; [Broadside – Cholera] (Removal of Nuisances) At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 21st Day of November 1831, By the Lords of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1831. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Fair. Single sided broadside, approximately 440mm x 570mm in size

Chipped to extremities with some loss to margins, creased from old folds, with minor loss to the middle of a few words of a sentence in the centre (‘appeared and broken out’), but with no loss of sense. Extensive Japanese tissue repairs to reverse, faint blue pencil marks to right hand margin

An uncommon survival, allowing for the removal of persons or goods (‘nuisances’) on ships “arriving and having any infectious Disease or Distemper on board”, including the plague, or spasmodic cholera

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