ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS***


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A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS


[Illustration: “THE RIGHTS of WOMEN” or the EFFECTS of FEMALE
ENFRANCHISEMENT]


A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS

Showing the State of Political Parties and Party
Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of
Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria


[Illustration: CANDIDATES ADDRESSING THEIR CONSTITUENTS.]


Illustrated from the Original Political Squibs, Lampoons
Pictorial Satires, and Popular Caricatures of the Time

by

JOSEPH GREGO

Author of “James Gillray, the Caricaturist: His Life, Works, and Times”
“Rowlandson, the Caricaturist: His Life, Times, and Works,” etc.







London
Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly
1886

[The right of translation is reserved]



    “I think the Tories love to buy
      ‘Your Lordships’ and ‘Your Graces,’
