James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to present a collection of books by English journalist, farmer, and pamphleteer, William Cobbett (1763-1835). Considered one of the most influential radicals of his time, Cobbett was a champion of laborers and the rural poor and an agitator for parliamentary and social reform. Highlights include a first edition of Cobbett's most enduring work, Rural Rides, a colorful and authentic account of the rural English countryside.
London: John Saunders, 25 Newgate Street, 1836. First edition. "A hostile biography, marred by many inaccuracies, but useful for many critical notices it contains." Pearl. Read More about Memoirs of the late William Cobbett, Esq. M.P. for Oldham; ; Embracing all the Interesting Events...
Price: $250
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1835. Read More about The Life of William Cobbett. Dedicated to his sons
Price: $100
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne, Number 6 printed by Jo=hn Knight, Lane's Court, London, Feburary 15, 1817-March 22, 1817. Complete first 6 issues, possibly 8 issues were published. Read More about Anti-Cobbett, or The Weekly Patriotic Pamphlet. Volume 1 No.1-Volume 1-No.6
Price: $600
London: Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street, 1806. Read More about Cobbett's Political Register. Vol X from July to December 1806
Price: $150
New York: Published by H. Cobbett and G.S. Oldfield, No. 19 Wall-Street, 1816. Read More about Cobbett's American Political Register. Volume XXX
Price: $200
London: Published at 11 Bolt Court, Fleet-Street, 1835. First edition. Read More about Cobbett's Legacy to Labourers; Or, What Is the Right Which the Lords, Baronets, and Squires Have...
Price: $125
London: Published at 11 Bolt Court, Fleet-Street, 1835. Read More about Cobbett's Legacy to Parsons, or Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to...
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London: Published at 11 Bolt Court, Fleet-Street, 1835. Second edition. Read More about Cobbett's Legacy to Parsons, or Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to...
Price: $100
London: Published at No. 11 Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, 1832. First edition. These are the lectures given by Cobbett while he was a prospective parliamentary candidate for a Manchester parlimentary seat. Read More about Cobbett's Manchester Lectures, in support of his Fourteen Reform Propositions : which lectures...
Price: $350
London & Vol. 30 New York: 1815 & 1816. First Editions. AMERICAN BINDINGS. Volume 30 was printed by Cobbett's nephew Henry, pp. 436-448 has American Packet No. 1. Read More about Cobbett's Political Register Vol. XXVIII & XXIX WITH: Volume XXX January -June 1816
Price: $400
London: Printed by Cox and Haylis, Great Queen Strteet, 1807-808. Read More about Cobbett's Political Register. Vol. XII from July to December; Vol. XIV from July to December, 1808
Price: $200
New York: Published by H. Cobbett, No. 19 Wall-Street, 1817. Read More about Cobbett's Political Register. Volume II, American or Volume XXXIII. English from May to November...
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London: 1832. First edition in book form, consisting of articles written for the Political Register in the autumn of 1832, with some added original material. Read More about Cobbett's Tour in Scotland; and in the Four Northern Counties of England: in the autumn of the...
Price: $200
London: May 1, 1813-June 26, 1813. Read More about Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
Price: $150
London: Printed and Published by W. Cobbett, No. 183, Fleet-street, 1826. Read More about Cobbett's Weekly Register. Volume LVIII from April to June 24, 1826
Price: $150
London: J. Gold, 1809. this edition issued in the same year as first in this sixpenny edition. These are "one of the many hostile publications issued by Cobbett's enemies giving extracts from his eralier anti-Reform writings. Read More about Elements of Reform, or An Account of the Motives and Intentions of the Advocates for...
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London: Chales Clement, 183, Fleet-Street, 1824. First Edition. Read More about A French Grammar, or, Plain Instructions for the learning of French in a series of Letters
Price: $300
London: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, Bolt-Court; Published by William Cobbett, 183, Fleet-Street, 1830. First edition. Read More about History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth
Price: $400
Philadelphia: Chez Thomas et William Bradford, Libraires, Première Rue Sud, No. 8, 1805. There were editions in 1795 and 1801. Read More about Le Tuteur Anglais ou Grammaire Regulière de la langue Anglaise
Price: $200
à Philadelphie, [Philadelphia]: Chez Thomas et William Bradford, Libraires, Première Rue Sud, No. 8, 1805. Séconde édition. There were editions in 1795 and 1801. Read More about Le Tuteur Anglais ou Grammaire Regulière de la langue Anglaise : en deux parties : premiere...
Price: $400
New York: Published by J. Belden and Co. Van Winkle & Wiley, Priners, 1815. Read More about Letters of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain:
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London: Cobbett and Morgan, Pall-Mall, January, 1802. Second Edition. Addington (1757-1844), later the firest Viscount Sidmouth, had recently become PM, and Cobbett warned him of the disastrous effects of a Peace with France, on 'our colonies, our commerce...our manufactures,... and ...our Constitution.' " Pearl. Read More about Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Hawkesbury and to the Right Honourable Henry Addington, on...
Price: $300
