History of the Boroughs of Great Britain and the Cinque Ports - History of the Welsh Boroughs (Only)

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VG, 1792. In modern quarter tan calf, red marbled boards, a little rubbed at corners. Spine has no title. Internally, new endpapers, half title, then direct to History of the Welch Boroughs, Vol 3, [2], [1], 2-52 pp. Probably extracted from Volume 3 of Oldfield's An entire and complete history, political and personal of the boroughs of Great Britain. Interesting and uncommon in any form! Oldfield, political reformer and historian, whose first book chronicled An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal, of the Boroughs of Great Britain (3 vols., 1792), and was followed by a History of the Original Constitution of Parliaments (1797). Oldfield continued to expound the ideas of electoral reform through such historical treatises as a History of the House of Commons (4 vols., 1812), The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland (6 vols., 1816), and A Key to the House of Commons (1820). See ODNB for a full Bio.