The state of the representation of England and Wales, delivered to the Society, the Friends of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform … Revised, compressed, and reprinted by the London Corresponding Society, 4th May 1795 (1795)

The state of the representation of England and Wales was first published by the London reform group, the Friends of the People, in February 1793 and copies sent to the London Corresponding Society (LCS) at the time. Thomas Hardy, the founder of the LCS, recalled that the work was ‘proportionally distributed among the different divisions; each division lent to a class of their members to read for one week — they returned them the next meeting night and another class had them to read another week and they returned them also’. The LCS wrote a private letter to the Friends of the People in April 1793 offering their thanks for such a significant report, and some two years later in consultation with the London Reforming Society — formerly Division 12 of the LCS — the London Corresponding Society published a thirty-two page abridged version of The state of the representation of England and Wales.