By Permission of the Worshipful the bailiffs. Town hall, bridgnorth. Mr. thorpe, ...respectively intimates that it is his intention to deliver his Comic Lectures...Amongst the pieces introduced on this occasion, will be - The Rev. Dr. Disney's admired Address on Negro Slavery, and his Appeal to Free-born Britons...
[Bridgnorth].
Gitton, Printer, [1824].
Dimensions 180 x 230 mm.
Single sheet, printed on one side only. A trifle creased and marked, loss to one margin.
An apparently unrecorded provincially published playbill advertising an evening's entertainment at Bridgnorth town hall in 1824, notably including an recitation of Church of England clergyman Samuel Disney's (1738-1786) abolitionist poem 'Epilogue to The Padlock', first printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine for October 1787.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 19635
