Pamphlets for the people
Publisher: Charles Ely
Published: 1835
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: Each no. has also a distinctive title.

No. [1]-[13] published by John Longley; no. [14]-[36] by Charles Ely.

Thirty-six pamphlets, issues weekly, June, 1835-Jan. 1836.  Each pamphlet contains brief articles by various authors; unless otherwise noted, Roebuck is the author as well as the editor.

The pamphlets were issued regularly, week by week, but not as a periodical, specifically to avoid the stamp tax which ruined Cobbett's "Twopenny trash" in 1815.

There is a "corrected copy" of no. 8, July 30, 1835.  No. 10-17 are dated Aug. 20-Oct. 10, 1835 and corrected to Aug. 13-Oct. 3, 1835; no. 20-21 are dated Oct. 27-30, 1835 and corrected to Oct. 24031, 1835.

J.H. Wiener. A descriptive finding list of unstamped British periodicals, 1830-1836, no. 324.

No. [1]-[22] constitute v. 1; no. [23]-[36] constitute v. 2.

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