Description

[003681] P. The Premature Canvass, Extracted from Say’s Sunday Reporter, March 18, 1804. London: R. Bassam, 1804. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Good. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 190mm x 310mm in size.

Lightly browned, small closed tear to head, creased from old folds, small hole to centre catching a couple of letters, but with no loss of sense, small marks to portrait just catching image

Selector; or Say’s Sunday Reporter was a London newspaper, published between 1799 and 1808

The printer was R.[obert] Bassam of 53 St. John’s Street, Smithfield, fl.1768-1808, the son of Robert Bassam a coffin maker (see BBTI)

Seemingly unrecorded