Description

[002066] [Election Squib]. Reading Races. Reading: Snare and Co., 1806. First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Broadside. Good. Printed single sided election squib, approximately 160mm x 275mm in size.

Tightly cropped to all sides, but with no loss, light spots of browning to corners, presumably where once affixed, otherwise quite bright and clean.

Election squib for the Reading election of 1806 taking the form of a horse race, mentioning Francis Annesley, ‘Perseverance’, MP for Reading from 1774; Charles Shaw Lefevre, ‘True-Blue’, who represented Reading from 1802-1820 and John Simeon, ‘Coaxer’