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Twenty-three very scarce volumes of early nineteenth century periodical 'The Pamphleteer', containing hundreds of diverse and fascinating pamphlets. Twenty three very scarce, non-consecutive volumes. Present here are volumes I-VI, VIII-XII, XIV-XVII, and XIX-XXVI.Eventually extending to XXIX volumes, lacking in this set are volumes VII, XIII, XVIII, and XXVII-XXIX.Present here are 203 pamphlets of the 562 pamphlets that this periodical ultimately produced.Begun in March 1813, 'The Pamphleteer' was founded, printed and edited by John Abraham Valpy. Issued in quarterly parts, each volume contains a number of pamphlets. This set is worn, with pamphlets missing from each volume, and text blocks both strained and broken.Volume I features fourteen pamphlets. It lacks seven pamphlets: Letter from Mr Wylde; Pamphlets on the East India Company's Charter; Vansittart's Outlines of a Plan of Finance; Bernard's An Account of a Supply of Fish; Fabius's A Letter to the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and Letters of Probus in Answer to Gracchus.Volume I also lacks one plate.Volume II features seven pamphlets.It lacks seventeen pamphlets, being pamphlets 29, 31-34, 35-39, 41-44, and 46, according to R. F. Mullen, 'The Pamphleteer 1813-1828'.Volume III features ten pamphlets.It lacks eight pamphlets, being pamphlets 48-49, 52-53, 55-56, 58, and 62.Volume IV features only four pamphlets.It lacks eighteen pamphlets, being pamphlets 68-85.Volume V features twelve pamphlets.It lacks eight pamphlets, being pamphlets 94, 96, 99-101, and 103-105.Volume VI features seven pamphlets.It lacks sixteen pamphlets, being pamphlets 109-115, 120-125, 127-129.Volume VIII features eight pamphlets.It lacks eleven pamphlets, being pamphlets 151, and 153-162.Volume IX features nine pamphlets.Lacking thirteen pamphlets, being pamphlets 170-179, 186, 189.Volume X features six pamphlets.Lacking fifteen pamphlets, being pamphlets 193-195, 199, 201-211.Volume XI retains only one single pamphlet, and lacks nineteen pamphlets (nos. 212-227, and 229-231).Volume XII retains only three pamphlets, and lacks sixteen (nos. 232-246, and 250).Volume XIV features eleven pamphlets.Lacking twelve, being nos. 275-282, 287-290.Illustrated with a folding map.Volume XV lacks all twenty-four pamphlets, and retains only the title page and contents leaves.Volume XVI features five pamphlets.Lacking fourteen pamphlets, being nos. 317, 321-333.Volume XVII features eleven pamphlets.Lacking ten, being nos. 338, 340, 342, 346-348, 350-353.Vol. XIX features eleven pamphlets.Lacking six, being numbers 383-384, 390-391, and 393-394.Vol. XX features eleven pamphlets.Lacking five, being 398-400, and 409-410.Vol. XXI has eighteen pamphlets.Lacking two pamphlets, nos. 425-426.Vol. XXII has thirteen pamphlets.Lacking four, nos. 436, 442-443, and 445.Vol. XXIII has thirteen pamphlets.Lacking nine, nos. 450, 452-453, 462, 466-470.Vol. XXIV has six pamphlets.Lacking twelve, nos. 474-476, 480, 482-489.Vol. XXV has twelve pamphlet.Lacking eight, nos. 492, 497-502, 505.Vol. XXVI has eleven pamphlets.Lacking nine, nos. 510-511, 513-514, 518-519, 521, 525-526.The majority of the pamphlets present are exceptionally scarce.Pamphlets in the collection include such works as the 1824 work 'Remarks on Suicide' by Thomas Chevalier; the third edition of Charles Butler's 'On the Legality of Impressing Seamen'; Thomas Erskine's 'An appeal to the people of Great Britain on the subject of confederated Greece'; W. L. Bowles's 'A Reply to the Charges Brought by the Reviewer of Spence's Anecdotes'; George Field's 'The Third Organon', and 'The Source of the Evil' by 'Anglo-Hibernus'.In modern cloth bindings, with endpapers renewed, and with library stamps to each title page, and to the title pages of a number of pamphlets in each volume. Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. Externally, smat. Significant rubbing to four spine labels. Joints of vol XV starting and tenderly held. Back strip of volume XVI split. Weakly bound, with ea.
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