Correct Return List of the Winning Horses, For the Grand Race conteste

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Correct Return List of the Winning Horses, For the Grand Race contested for this day

"THUS TERMINATED ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST PLEASANT DAY'S FOR THE BRUMMAGONIANS"

with the correct Pedigrees, and Offical Remarks.

Printed handbill (370 x 160mm). Browned at the edges and with neat early fold lines, one small tissue repair on the blank verso; printed on extremely thin and delicate paper.

Birmingham: Thomas Vale, Printer, Freeman Street, 1844.

£950.00

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Correct Return List of the Winning Horses, For the Grand Race contested for this day

UNRECORDED. NOT IN OCLC OR COPAC.

A satirical account of the important 1844 Birmingham by-election presented in the style of a racing report.

Richard Spooner is here characterised as Sir John Candour who “took a most satisfactory gallop yesterday” pitted against William Schofield (or “Basewig”) and Joseph Sturge (“‘Mr. Sleekface’s Dun Horse Broad Brim“). Spooner won with over 2000 votes and became the first Conservative to represent Birmingham. Jacob Wilson, referred to as the “clerk of the course” was the famous Birmingham town crier.

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Correct Return List of the Winning Horses, For the Grand Race contested for this day

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