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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5 X 7.5 inches. 332 pages. Green cloth hardcover with gilt type on spine. No DJ. Frayed spine edges. Withdrawn library copy with stickers on cover and stamps on end pages. Solid square binding.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. new edition. Small octavo, (approx. 4 3/4" wide by 7 1/2" tall) green cloth covers, 272 pages. First published in June, 1933 under the title of "The Progress of a Ploughboy". New edition with the present title in 1947. Dust jacket chipped at one corner, price clipped, Good. 092717C.…

hardback, 8vo, viii,330pp, frontispiece, slight foxing on page edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, brown cloth, slightly rubbed, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition 2nd Printing. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Heavily Soiled; Spine Heavily Yellowed Due to Sun Exposure; Light Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None. CONTENTS: I 1763-1782; II 1783-1784; III 1784-1791; IV 1784-1791; V 1792-1795; VI 1796-1800; VII 1800-1805; VIII 1805-1810; IX 1810-1812; X 1812-1817; XI 1817-1819; XII 1820-1825; XIII 1825-1830; XIV 1830-1834; XV 1835; Notes; The Sources of the Text; Index. EXCERPT: EDITOR'S NOTE In 1834, Cobbett announced that it was his intention to close the Political Register and to publish, "as the work of another year", the history of his life. He later expands this idea. "I shall entitle my book 'The Progress of a Plough-boy to a seat in Parliament, as exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham'; and, I intend that the frontispiece to the book shall represent me, first in a smock-frock, driving the roods from the corn; and, in the lower compartment of the picture, standing in the House of Commons, addressing the Speaker." This intention was never carried out. The present work was prepared with Cobbett's plan in the editor's mind. The method, that of using the autobiographical parts of Cobbett's writings, was suggested by the anonymous Life of 1835 and by the more fully developed work of E. I. Carlyle in 1904. In the present book the method has been used to its fullest extent, and all but a few linking passages are of Cobbett's own composition. All editorial insertions have been enclosed in square brackets. The exact source of all the material used has been indicated in the Sources of the Text. Any reader who wishes to see exactly what has been done in the way of combining separated passages, or what changes in grammatical construction have been made for the sake of continuity, will find it easy to refer to the original passages. The latter changes have not been indicated in the notes, except when the source is still unpublished, and then the passage has been printed for convenience of reference. The editor wishes to thank H. W. Cobbett, Esq., of Manchester, for his courtesy in permitting the Cobbett Papers in his possession to be examined, and for his kindness in permitting them to be examined frequently. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Taschenbuch oder Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: AKZEPTABLER Zustand. HC1-223-4/8-00261434 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 238.