SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM COBBETT'S RURAL RIDES 1821-1832

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1984

0863500196 / 9780863500190

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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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Titolo
SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM COBBETT'S RURAL RIDES 1821-1832
Autore
William Cobbett
Editore
Webb & Bower, Exeter
Anno di pubblicazione
1984
Condizione
Fine
Sovraccoperta
Near Fine
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0863500196
ISBN 13
9780863500190
Edizione
First Edition
Dimensioni
224pp

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