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[004874] [Alnwick Board of Health] Four Broadsides Relating to the Election of Members to the Board of Health in Alnwick. Alnwick: J. C. Paterson. First Edition. Various. Unbound. Broadsides. Good. Four broadsides (one duplicate), relating to the local board of health elections, including one satirical, three are from 1873, one from 1875, two (the duplicates) with the imprint of J. C. Paterson, two without imprint. Various sizes, one approximately 195mm x 225mm; one 255mm x 300mm (slightly trimmed to head, just catching text but with no loss of sense); one 250mm x 315mm; and one 255mm x 370mm in size

All very lightly foxed, all with minor evidence of removal from a scrap album, one or two small chips or tears, one with date in ink, but generally all complete and relatively bright

The duplicates and the smaller one are factual, with one exhorting the electors to remember the ‘hatred exhibited towards you as a body, by members who are now seeking re-election … return better men’; the duplicates give the results of the election, with the residence and occupation of those elected (mainly shopkeepers); and the largest is a satire, and though the wit is largely lost on this cataloguer, the inference is given by the ‘place’ of publication being Bedlam