Sunday In London Illustrated In 14 cuts by George Cruikshank.

John Wight.

Verlag: Effingham Wilson., London., 1833

Beschreibung

iV + 86 pages + 19 pages of Sir Andrews Bill in full. With 11 woodcut plates and 3 vignette illustration by George Cruikshank inc title page. Rebound in tradition style or early 19th century half calf and marbled paper boards, old chocolate colour endpapers used, title page and a few other leaves have the odd handling marks and some odd foxing, some light stains at bottom corners near spine on a few pages, text not affected. The vignette woodcuts are also free of it. These are charming and some of Cruikshank's best and lively. A humorous look at this issue of Sunday and the sabbath day working practices proposed by this "Bill". The rebind is very sympathetically done and can only still be enjoyed as a seemingly superior original period binding when handled. Small octavo. Author not named, but research shows it to be John Wight, who wrote several works on similar London themes and humour at this period. *NOTE: Sir A. Agnew was Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire in Scotland, 1830-1837. He stood as a moderate reformer, but soon became deeply attached to the cause of Sabbath Day Practices, and pressed for the banning of all secular labour on Sunday. For this purpose he introduced no less than four Sabbath Observance Bills in the Commons, none of which passed. It was the third attempt which drew on him the wrath of Charles Dickens, whose essay Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) is very largely a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. While Dickens made many cogent arguments against the Bill, the strongest perhaps being that people cannot be forced to go to Church on Sunday, his personal attack is probably unjust: the Dictionary of National Biography speaks of Agnew's "genial and kindly nature". He left Parliament in 1837, and no further effort to proceed with a Sabbath Observance Bill was made. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5578

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sunday In London Illustrated In 14 cuts by ...

Verlag: Effingham Wilson., London.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1833

Einband: Half-Calf

Illustrator: George Cruikshank.

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Not applicable

Auflage: 1st Edition