Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Case of the late election for the county of Middlesex, considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.
Call Number
0099.695 v.34
Lapidus 5.1871Q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dczg64tx17g
Publisher
London : Printed for T. Cadell (successor to Mr. Millar) ..., 1769.
Language
English
Date Created
1769
Format
Book
Extent
48 p. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC N26881
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Concerns the election of John Wilkes to Parliament.
Anonymous. Attributed to Owen Ruffhead by Wilfrid Prest. William Blackstone, law and letters in the eighteenth century. OUP, 2008, p. 245. See also the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Has been attributed to Jeremiah Dyson and sometimes to Sir William Blackstone. Cf. BLC; Halkett & Laing.
With a half title.
WIT copy is no. 8 of a volume of pamphlets.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Recent three quarter leather; marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Wilkes, John 1725-1797
Great Britain Parliament—Elections
Great Britain Parliament House of Commons—Expulsion

Physical Characteristics

File Count
58

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/22015118-b891-43f8-ab53-09ce64e56636/manifest