Description

[004359] Jeyes, Theo. [Association for Protection of Persons and Property]. Northampton: Dicey & Smithson [Printers], 1819. First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 180mm x 230mm in size

Minor creasing from old folds, slight trace of old pencilled numbers towards head, otherwise quite bright and clean

Broadside advertising the establishment of some sort of an ‘Association for Protection of Persons and Property’ in Northampton. These Associations, largely existing between 1780-1850, “were private institutions, made up of local property-owners, who came together to form an organization and raise a fund in order to find, arrest, and prosecute, at common expense, offenders against themselves and their property” (Philips in Hay and Snyder, Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850, page 118)

The printers Dicey & Smithson appear in the BBTI as trading between 1822-1830, but also clearly earlier, as here. Seemingly unrecorded