Pamphlets for the People Vol. I. [& II.]: On the Means of Conveying Information to the People, with an Appendix; A Letter to the Electors of Bath, on the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill, with a Postscript on the Conduct of Sir Robert Peel and Others, o…

20, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16 pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles. A collection of articles related to activism and radical viewpoints concerning the stamp duty on newspapers, published in this form to avoid this duty, which J.A. Roebuck called a 'tax on knowledge.' Also includes mentions of the American colonies, the new colony of Australia (Great Britain had only asserted dominion over the entire continent eight years earlier), and election reform. All thirty-six pamphlets (which were, in fact, newspapers in pamphlet form) are included, though a title page and contents is only present for the first volume, which comprised 22 pamphlets. J.A. Roebuck, the editor, was a member of Parliament. Includes: On the Means of Conveying Information to the People, with an Appendix; A Letter to the Electors of Bath, on the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill, with a Postscript on the Conduct of Sir Robert Peel and Others, on the Discussion of the Question; The Stamped Press of London and Its Morality; The Dorchester Labourers; On the Qualification Clause of the Corporation Bill; The Amusements of the Aristocracy and the People; The American Ballot-Box, &c.; Persecution Preached by the Parsons of the State Church in Ireland; Uselessness of the Guards in London; Trades' Unions: Their Advantages to the Working Classes; Fallacies of the House of Commons on the Ballot in America; The Taxes on Knowledge; The Morning Advertiser and Mr Wakley; Of What Use is the House of Lords' Persecution of the Unstamped Press; Orange Societies; The Evils of a House of Lords; Mr Spring Rice and the Taxes on Knowledge, with a Postscript; Matchless Constitution; The Crisis! What Ought the Ministers to Do'; A Rotten Borough for Sale; Mr Bulwer's Sham Motion for the Repeal of the Tax on Knowledge; Administration of the Law by the Lords; Mr Ormsby Grove and the Landlords' Argument in Favour of War; The Peers and the People - Municipal Reform - Corn Laws - Taxes on Knowledge; Wholesale Obstructiveness of the Lords, &c.; The Conduct of Ministers Respecting the Lords' Amendments; Local Courts in Boroughs; A Short Review of a Long Session; Mr Grove Price and the Constitution; New Method of Disfranchising Electors, &c.; A Letter to the Duke of Cumberland; A Letter to the Future Municipal Electors of Bath; Borough Courts; Liberal Construction of the Reform Act at Leeds; Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A Letter to James Turner, Cotton Spinner; Commemoration of the Reformation; Mr Rintoul the 'We' of the Spectator; The 'Great Unstamped' Acknowledged to be Invincible; Parties in the House of Commons: Dissensions among the Tories; O'Connell and English Agitation; Consolation and Compensation to Borough Town Clerks: Royal Prerogative; General Evans's Rule of Promotion in the Auxiliary Army of Spain; Conduct of the Authorities towards the Unstamped Press; A Church, What' A State Church, What'; Legal Wisdom - The Revising Barristers; Sobriety of the Working Class - The Gin Palace Fallacy; Democracy in America; Character and Sufferings of the Irish Clergy; The London Review and the Irish Church Question; The 'We' of the Herald; The Times; The Newspaper Stamp Return, &c.; Whigs and Radicals - Lord John Russell; A Letter to Dr Chalmers, on the Subject of a Grant of Public Money to the Scotch Church; Poor Laws; Progress of Democracy; The London Review of the Periodical Press; The Orange Exposure; Preliminary Reforms: Being a Summary of the Principles Advocated in These Pamphlets; A Letter to Daniel O'Connell, Esq. M.P., on Peerage Reform; A Letter from Geo. Sinclair, Esq., M.P., to Mr Roebuck, with Reply and Remarks; The English in America; Injustice to Prisoners; The Municipal Elections; The Whole Art and Mystery of Peerage Scheming; Cheap Law: Hints Addressed to the Young Men of Great Britain, on the Progress of Political Opinion; Should Politics Influence Municipal Elections'; A Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers; The Birmingham Political Union and the House of Lords; More 'Justices' Justice'; Stopping Supplies; Lord Glenelg and the New Australian Colony; England, a Step-Mother to Her Soldiers; Signs of the Times; Toryphobia; Despotism of the French King: Opinions of Republicanism in France; Whig Appointments to Office: Lord Aylmer, Ex-Governor of Canada; Note on 'The Globe'; The Orange Plot; The People Are Not to Blame: Libellous Fallacy of the Edinburgh Review; Decay of Whigism - Public Opinion in Bath - The Recent Dinner; The Whig Creed - Lord John Russell and the Bristol Dinner; Factory Workers and Hand-Loom Weavers: Ten Hours Bill; Prospects of the Coming Session: Views of the Radical Party; Mr N. Goldsmid and Mr John Black, the Editor of the Morning Chronicle; Railroads and Railroad Projects - Mr Goulburn's Anathema; The Newspaper Stamp Return - Postscript to a Former Article; Radical Support to a Whig Ministry; Taxation of the Rich and of the Poor; Mr Laing's Justices' Justice; The Radicals and the Ministers; Speech of Sir W. Molesworth at Birmingham; The Paper-Makers' Grievance; Democracy Preached by 'Blackwood'; The King's Speech, Which Ought to Be Spoken; The Colonies; The British Museum; State of the Newspaper Stamp Question; Aristocracy (From 'The London Review.').