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[004084] [Morgan, John Minter] The Revolt of the Bees. London: Hurst, Chance and Co. And Effingham Wilson, 1830. Reprint. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [5], vi-xi, [2], 2-182pp. Original cloth, title label to spine

Spine lightly faded, with light staining towards top and a small ink stain towards foot, light stain to lower cover, cloth generally lightly mottled. Lacks the front free endpaper, previous owners name to head of half-title, frontispiece lightly stained, otherwise fairly clean. With engraved frontispiece by Robert Wallis after Henry Corbould, tailpiece to final leaf

Nominally the second edition, but at least the third (with editions in 1826 and 1828). Sargent describes it as promoting a “better society possible through the application of Christianity and reason. Anti-capitalist”

See Stammhammer I:200; Sargent, page 20; Negley 814; Goldsmiths 25138; Kress C.2594; and Wolff 4906, for earlier and other editions