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[005150] [Anti Radical] To the Whole Population of England, But More Particularly to the Pitmen, Keelmen, & Manufacturers in Northumberland and Durham. Newcastle: Edw. Walker, First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Good. Broadside, n.d. but 1819, approximately 195mm x 290mm in size

Minor chipping to head, with light remnants of glue to reverse at head where once tipped onto a backing, lightly creased from old horizontal folds, partial minor soiling to right hand edge, otherwise fairly clean

The printer was Edw.[ard] Walker of Pilgrim Street in Newcastle, between 1795 and 1831, see Hunt, The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860, page 92

Anti radical broadside, aimed at the working class of the north, noting that there are currently “mischievous persons attempting in this, as well as other Parts of the Country, to deceive your Understanding and mislead your judgement … Beware of those who call themselves the Friends of the People as being the Supporters of Radical Reform. Those Men, who scoff at Religion, blaspheme the Holy Scriptures, deride our Courts of Justice, and proclaim it a Denial of Justice when they are not allowed to trample on every Principle of Law and Justice, cannot be the true and sincere Friends of Englishmen. Beware of Them!”

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