Joseph Hume.-

Crosbie (M.) A Plan for Raising a Military Force, on the Principles of Free Service: detailed in a Letter addressed to Field Marshal His Royal Highness The Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief, PRESENTATION COPY, with a letter, addressed to Hume from the author partially pasted to the front free endpaper, also inscribed in Hume’s hand to both the title page and a presentation label: ‘Presented to the Library of the City of London by Joseph Hume MP, a Citizen - July 1843’, pamphlet, 148pp., bound with an additional pp.311-320 on the same subject, various library stamps, library cloth binding, 4to, 1827.

***Crosbie’s letter reads: ‘I confide to your honourable bosom, my name and my work. I have motives for requesting you to observe a profound silence with respect to each…’ (Walker’s Hotel, Dean St. Soho, 12th May 1829)