SUSSEX. [A collection of bound ephemera relating to the election of a new Member of Parliament for Lewes in 1816. Lewes: Lee and Baxter, 1816.] Folio, (77 x 112mm to 327 x 208mm.) 38 electoral leaflets (2 hand-written), comprising poems, letters, adverts and political propaganda relating to the period February-March 1816. (Occasional creasing, browning, circular stamps to most pieces.) Later green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Note: bound in chronological order, the leaflets trace the events from when Thomas Read Kemp resigned as M.P. for Lewes and it was expected that the successor would be J. Scarlett. However, a riot of indignation ensues when Mr. Scarlett's friend, John Shelley, also decides to stand. The subsequent leafleteering is satirical, often funny ('WANTED IMMEDIATELY, an ORATOR, to speak the sentiments of a 'perfectly independent Cock-Fighter, and Bull-Baiter, a person of small stature, and adapted to the Pocket, will be preferred'), while also reflecting wider issues around religious tolerance. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to the front pastedown).