Letter on the Abuses stated in the Petition of Landowners, and others connected with the Principality of Wales

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The Welsh landed interest was concerned with the way government institutions, taxation, administration and public expenditure affected the Principality. First ed, 1838, in modern green cloth, title in gilt. Spine, no title. Internally, new endpapers, [3], 4-51 pp. Has a line through 3 lines at rear, printed by J Limbird, light browning to tp and then page edges. A very nice copy of an uncommon title. Rice, Thomas Spring, first Baron Monteagle of Brandon, was a strong unionist and even went so far as to suggest in 1834, in a parliamentary speech which he later published, that Ireland be renamed West Britain (Brent, 51). See ODNB for a full Bio. Also the date 1838 is particularly significant as Wales was undergoing substantial administrative and political change following the 1830s reform era.