An Answer to the Apology for the Conduct of Thomas Lister, Esq; Respecting The Borough of Clitheroe.

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Small quarto. 48,18,5. Complete. Last leaf laid down, frayed at edges though not affecting text. Unbound, upper cover of marbled paper of the period, more recently placed in a functional modern card binding. The two major political figures in Clitheroe at the time, Thomas Lister (Later Lord Ribblesdale) and Assheton Curzon (Later Viscount Curzon), who hada shared equal representation as MP's until Lister played a trick on his partner which gave him an increased number of burgages. The two former friends fell out and each published his own side of the story. This is Curzon's. Rare. N° de ref. del artículo 23521

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