[Printed pamphlet in the form of a poetical dialogue regarding a parliamentary bill to legalise marriage to a deceased wife's sister.] Sisters-in-Law. A Conversation between two Peers.

15 + [1]pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Poetic dialogue in Tennysonian blank verse, beginning: 'First Peer. - This measure, every session comes to pass | By large majorities the Lower House; | And every year, of course, we throw it out, | But only by a bare majority. | That such a Bill should ever be the law | To me appears impossible, absurd - | Things are not what they were I know: Reform | Of one kind or another is abroad.' Footnote on p.6 referring to 'Lord Lyndhurst and Sir William Follett.' See also p.14: 'For what was Equity in 'Thirty-five | Must still be Equity in 'Seventy-one; | If Beaufort be absolved, why not the rest?' Apparently lacking the title stating that the poem was published in London in 1871 by Edward Stanford.