SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM COBBETT'S RURAL RIDES 1821-1832

Langue : anglais

Edité par Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1984

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This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with yellow titling to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper is lightly sunned to the spine so best described as near fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to England from a spell of self-imposed political exile in the United States. Cobbett disapproved of proposals for remedies for agricultural distress suggested in Parliament in 1821. He made up his mind to see rural conditions for himself, and to "enforce by actual observation of rural conditions" the statements he had made in answer to the arguments of the landlords before the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee. He embarked on a series of journeys by horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the English Midlands. He wrote down what he saw from the points of view both of a farmer and a social reformer. The result documents the early 19th-century countryside and its people as well as giving free vent to Cobbett's opinions. He first published his observations in serial form in the Political Register, running from 1822 to 1826. They were first published in book form in two volumes in 1830. This lavishly illustrated book contains a selection of his writings Ref KKK 3.…

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Titre
SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM COBBETT'S RURAL RIDES 1821-1832
Auteur
William Cobbett
Éditeur
Webb & Bower, Exeter
Année de publication
1984
État de l'article
Fine
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Near Fine
Reliure
Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0863500196
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780863500190
Édition
First Edition
Dimensions
224pp

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