The Griper

£95.00

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[004665] Beaumont, G.[eorge] The Griper : Being a Letter to John Harvey, Esq., in Reply to His Ungenerous Animadversions in a Public Assembly, in the Old Library Room, on the 14th of December, on my Speech Delivered at the Weavers’ Meeting, on the 7th of December, 1829. Norwich: George Wright, 1830. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good. [3]-ii, [1], 2-115pp, [1]. The full title is The Griper : Being a Letter to John Harvey, Esq., in Reply to his Ungenerous Animadversions in a Public Assembly, in the Old Library Room, on the 14th of December, on my Speech Delivered at the Weavers’ Meeting, on the 7th of December, 1829, at the Pantheon, St. Stephen’s, Norwich. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine

Externally very good. Title browned and soiled, number in ink to head, some light browning and light damp staining to margins, loss of top corner of P3 (not affecting text)

George Beaumont (fl. 1800-1830) was a British nonconformist minister and controversialist of the Ebenezer Chapel, Norwich. He is known as an early pacifist writer (Wikipedia)