Description: R U R A L R I D E S IN THE COUNTIES OF Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire,Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire,Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire. WITH Economical and Political Observations relative tomatters applicable to, and illustrated by, the State ofthose Counties respectively. ___________BY WILLIAM COBBETT___________ LONDON :PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM COBBETT1830. DESCRIPTIONFirst Edition(ii) + contents + 668pp + (ii)Book measures 185mm x 120mm approximately.Bound in contemporary medium tan half calf over green / olive boards. Spine with four gilt bands with gilt motifs to compartments and title in gilt.Lacks map and adverts.CONDITIONBinding is holding quite firm. Boards exhibit a level of general surface wear with a few small chips to edges and some minor surface scratches. Spine has some light crackling and age consistent wear and slight fraying to spine head. Light bumping to board corners.Internally, the pages show uniform age toning / browning throughout with just the odd patch of grubbiness. One of the ‘contents’ page is a little more dirty / grubby. Small ink signature to front end-paper.Please always refer to photo images for a clearer indication of condition.We are always happy to provide further photo images if required. INTERESTING William Cobbett (1763 to 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders. Cobbett backed lower taxes, saving, reversing commons enclosures and returning to the gold standard. Cobbett was a political activist and at one point spent two years in Newgate Prison for treasonous libel. Cobbett is most famous for the book Rural Rides. 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, between 1822 and 1826. Four rides from 1822, 1823, 1825 and 1826 were first published in book form in 1830.
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