The Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr. by King, Dan, 1791-1864. Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 - 1859

Boston, Published by the Author, 1859. Thomas Dorr led an armed rebellion against the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to overthrow exclusionary election laws which allowed only very few propertied men to vote. Sabin 37790. Hard Cover. 368 pages, portrait frontispiece; 19.5 cm. Frontispiece portrait, guardsheet, & title-page heavily foxed; a few early pages lightly foxed. Bound in embossed dark-brown cloth over boards, extremities worn, binding split along top of spine edges; internally mostly clean; light waterstain along bottom half-inch of textblock over last 50 or so pages; Good-. Stock#30305bis/house.