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[WADE, JOHN]. The Black Book; or Corruption Unmasked!. London: John Fairburn, 1820. 1st ed. 8vo. 480 pp. Contemp. 3/4 calf. Very good copy. $450.00

 

PMM 296, citing the 1831 edition: "The long struggle [for reform] was conducted through a mass of printed matter, which the press, just beginning its own industrial revolution, strove to provide. The 'Bible of the Reformers' was the Black Book, a massive compendium of all the abuses, electoral, ecclesiastical, legal, which they sought to abolish. It was first published in 1820..." Kress C.638 (vol. I).