Splinters, historical, sacred and profane : partly from off that standard oak, our blessed constitution : fifth, sixth, seventh years, nineteenth century : 1805. 1806. 1807 : manuscript, 1808.
Holograph manuscript, containing prose and verse explaining the emergence of social systems in biblical times, and their significance to the formation of the English Constitution and to nineteenth-century Great Britain.
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Illustrations: title-page vignette; frontispiece engraving: "Minerva, seated under the British oak, instructs the historic Muse in the spirit of English history, and particularly explains to her the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the English Constitution."
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Published as: Splinters, historical, sacred and profane ... Newcastle: Printed by J. and R. Akenhead, 1827.
