Second edition. 74 pages + 3 illustrated plates, with seemingly the frontispiece and another full-page illustration included within the pagination. Staple-bound. The book is quite firmly bound in lightly marked, bumped and rubbed plain dark green cloth, looking to date from the early twentieth century. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and age toned, with some dog-eared page corners and rusting around the staples. To both the front and rear pastedowns is the pencil ownership inscription of a Thomas F. Bindon. A detailed account of the 1839 battle which occurred in Newport, centred around the Westgate Hotel, between thousands of the Chartists and their sympathisers and a much smaller group of heavily armed soldiers. Including background on Newport, the history of Chartism in Wales, short illustrated biographies of the principal Chartist leaders, the circumstances leading to the battle, its aftermath and considerable detail of the subsequent trials of those arrested. It was originally published in one of Johns’s newspapers, followed by a first appearance in book form in 1884, and finally this second edition. Though quite well represented in institutional holdings it is rare in commerce.