Cobbett's England

This selection from Cobbett's journalism, pamphlets, and Rural Rides material presents his view of England in the decades after the Napoleonic Wars. The extracts show him as farmer, parliamentary reformer, and enemy of the borough-mongers, tax-eaters, and paper-money men he blamed for rural misery. He writes about enclosures, tithes, the poor law, rotten boroughs, and the look of particular counties as he rode them. Companion pieces set him among contemporaries and record his campaign for a reformed House of Commons. The collection is a sampler of political prose and agrarian observation rather than a single narrative.

Quarter bound in blue cloth, pink paper boards decorated in black. Blue endleaves. Dark blue slipcase.