“THEY HELPED EVERY ONE HIS NEIGHBOUR”

(ENGLISH HISTORY). The Trades' Newspaper and Mechanics' Weekly Journal. Numbers I-XII (July 17-October 2, 1825). London: J. Limbird, 1825. Small folio, in sheets sewn. $800.

First year’s issues of the short-lived English tradesmen’s journal, founded by an association of London and Provincial Trades to “advocate and uphold the interests of the working classes.”

A forerunning periodical in the labor movement in Great Britain, The Trades' Newspaper and Mechanics' Weekly Journal, beginning with its first issue, positioned itself with British workmen as "a Press—a Newspaper of [our] own—a common organ which may give better effect to [our] common appeal to the hearts and understandings of men, and which may, under all changes of circumstances, advocate and uphold the interests of the working classes, as before all others entitled to consideration and protection." The paper ran until July 22, 1827, when it was renamed the Trades' Free Press, then as the Weekly Free Press of Trade, Manufactures, and Commerce, and eventually the Weekly Free Press and Co-operative Journal. It was discontinued in April of 1831. Without Number V.

Pages 59 and 97 torn with loss of text, some soiling and tattering throughout. Scarce in any condition.