Remarks on Cruelty to Animals

A 1795 pamphlet against cruelty to animals, issued by the reformist printer George Nicholson without an author's name.

Original byline

Anonymous

Published

1795

Form

Pamphlets

Authorship

Still unknown

Reason for anonymity

Unrecorded

Copyright

Public domain

Reference

Wikipedia · Wikidata

The authorship story

Remarks on Cruelty to Animals appeared in 1795 from the Manchester printer George Nicholson, part of the earliest wave of animal welfare argument in England, decades before the first legislation. The pamphlet circulated under the printer's imprint without a named author, as reform literature of the period often did; the cause was the byline. No attribution has entered the documented record, and the writer remains unknown. It stands here for the large class of moral-campaign pamphlets whose authors let the argument stand alone.

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