Letter II. To the freemen of Alnwick. My good friends and brethren, I told you in my first and introductory letter, that I believed I could let you a little into the reason of the four and twenty's not being favoured with any answer from the great man to their proposals for the division and improvement of the ...r, and at the same titue frame a sort of an apology for him. ... [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Robert, Clerk of the Council.

Standardized Title:

To the freemen of Alnwick. Letter II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12p. )

Place of Publication:

[Alnwick : Printed by T. Alder, 1781]

Notes:

Signed at end: "An old Craftsman", i.e. Robert Richardson, junior, clerk to the Alnwick Council.

Dated at head: "December, 6, 1781".

The second of seven letters published between 28 November 1781 and 1 February 1782 (cf. C. Clark Burman, 'An account of the art of typography as practised in Alnwick from 1781 to 1815', Alnwick, 1896, pp.10-11).

Place of printing and printer's name from the colophon of the first letter.

The "great man" = the Duke of Northumberland.

Title from drop-head title and opening lines of text.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T225253.

OCLC:

510713302