"The Parish of Shoddyville. Their new minister and How they got him."

38 pp. on lined paper 24 lines per page. Corrected and annotated. 4to, c 1883. Fine, with ties, some toning.

This manuscript probably is for this book: Shoddyville. A social and political satire. By Paladin. [In verse.] Author: PALADIN, pseud. Publisher: London : Kerby & Endean, 1884 [1883] The poem commences: "Shoddyville as some of my heroes may know, Is a place that has grown-is a place that must grow The people there tell me, without any doubt That the village, as yet, is hardly laid out, That taking the factories, just as they stand, With others already projected and palnned"

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