Description

[004351] [Volunteer Corps] Northampton, 22d March, 1798. No Place: No Publisher, 1798. First Edition. 12mo (Oblong). Unbound. Ephemera. Good+. Single sided printed hand bill, approximately 190mm x 160mm in size

Slightly creased from old folds, printing error with an ‘E’ missing from ‘Volunteer’, otherwise fairly bright.

Seemingly unrecorded appeal for volunteers during the ‘Great Fear’ of 1798, see Franklin and Philp, Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain, page 46