1829 · London
by [Elliott, Ebenezer]
London: printed for the author and published by Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1829. 12mo, pp. viii, [2], 198, [4] (ads); uncut; original drab paper-covered boards; paper label on spine; joints starting, label worn, text clean; a couple of neat manuscript corrections; very good. Small book label of John Sparrow on upper pastedown. Contemporary obituary of Elliott laid in, together with a wood-engraved portrait. A collection of poems which protested tariffs on grain that led to undue hardship to the poor. Elliott himself had experienced poverty and homelessness, and was an ardent, lifelong reformer, earning himself the moniker The Poet for the Poor. Elliott (truncated)