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Pig's meat; or, Lessons for the swinish multitude Collected by the poor man's advocate (an old veteran in the cause of freedom) in the course of his reading for more than twenty years
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- Title page for collected issues of v. 3 (1795): Pig's meat; or, Lessons for the people
- Pig's meat or lessons for the swinish multitude
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- Eighteenth century collections online
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- London [England] : printed for T[homas]. Spence, at the Hive of Liberty, no. 8, Little Turnstile, High Holborn, [1794-1795]
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- Volume II. [No. I-no. XXIV]-, Ceased with v. 3
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- v., plate ; 17 cm (12⁰)
- Preceding Titles
- "The poor man's advocate" = Thomas Spence, compiler and publisher.
- Title page for vol. 3 continues: "Alias (according to Burke) the swinish multitude. Published in penny numbers weekly ...".
- Volume II. No. I has title page which serves as volume title page; most issues have captions or lack titles (original wrappers lacking in copies seen).
- Notes at end of no. XII. (v. 2) read: End of part first, vol. II. N.B. The work will be continued as before, ... . No. XIII (v. 2) has caption title which reads: Pig's meat. Part second. vol. II.
- Note at end of vol. 2, no. 24 announces "A publication under the title of 'Eye salve, or Political knowledge for the people"; this was apparently published with an altered general title as vol. 3.
- Issue numbers appear on direction line of first page of text in each issue.
- Imprints lack dates; dated from text: "My second volome [sic] of Pig's meat was finished on ... the 17th of May, 1794." (v. 3, p. 3).
- Publishing date of v. 3 from text: "From the Morning Chronicle of January 3, 1795" (p. 4).
- There are two settings of v. 2: in a) first line of p. 15 begins: "parts were set our"; in b) first line of p. 15 begins: "vided into four parts".
- With plate and two final contents leaves in v. 3.
- Text continues from page to page with catchwords.
- P. 5 of v. 3 includes letter dated: "Dec. 22, 1795" in error for 1794.
- Consists of extracts from well-known authors, on individual rights and the rights of the poor; attacks the British government and constitution for their treatment of the poor; defends the French Republic.
- Reproduction of original from the British Library.
- NCBEL, II:1310
- Ward, W. S. Index of Serials, p. 120
- Crane & Kaye, 718a
- Goldsmiths, 37627
- English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP3428.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Collects original weekly issues in two volumes.