1824 THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S FRIEND CLIMBING BOY'S ALBUM CHILD LABOR HC 1ST ED.

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Up for auction is a hardcover book titled "The Chimney-Sweeper's Friend", and"Climbing-Boy's Album" edited by James Montgomery. With wood-engraved frontispiece and two plates by George Cruikshank.Printed by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1824, First edition.428 pages in length, with four advert pages in the back.The book is 4 1/2" by 7 1/4" in size. "This book will exhibit such testimonies concerning the subject, in all its bearings, as ought to satisfy the most supercilious, obdurate, and prejudiced, that such an employment is unnecessary, and altogether unjustifiable"-preface. The volume includes tracts, documents, essays and poems, all putting the case for the abolition of child chimney sweeps. According to the preface, Sir Walter Scott wrote to Montgomery in support of the abolition of climbing-boys and noted that when constructing Abbotsford, he ensured the chimneys were designed to be cleaned by machine. The editor was the poet James Montgomery (1771-1854) and the volume includes two of his poems. The book has contemporary boards with later cloth spine and a leather spine label.The boards are worn with a crack in board at lower right corner and back board has wear at corners.The cloth spine and leather label are in nice condition. All of the original 1824 book content is presentand is in near fine condition. read more

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