Cobbett, William 1763-1835

Overview

Works:	1,943 works in 7,519 publications in 2 languages and 94,449 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Handbooks, manuals, etc History Periodicals Humor Poetry Sources Trials, litigation, etc Bibliography Treaties
Roles:	Translator, Editor, Printer, Compiler, Publisher, Bookseller, Attributed name, Author of introduction
Classifications:	HB151, 942.0730924

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Publications about William Cobbett

Publications by William Cobbett

Publications by William Cobbett, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about William Cobbett

The life of W. Cobbett, Esq. M.P. for Oldham by William Cobbett ( )
The life of William Cobbett by G. D. H Cole ( Book )
William Cobbett; his thought and his times by John Walter Osborne ( Book )
The Last confession and dying speech of Peter Porcupine with an account of his dissection by William Cobbett ( )
The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine with a full and fair account of all his authoring transactions : being a sure and infallible guide for all enterprising young men who wish to make a fortune by writing pamphlets : to which is added his will and testament by William Cobbett ( )

William Cobbett by James Sambrook ( Book )
William Cobbett, the poor man's friend by George Spater ( Book )
Cobbett by Raymond Williams ( Book )
Great Cobbett : the noblest agitator by Daniel Green ( Book )
William Cobbett by G. K Chesterton ( Book )
Paine and Cobbett : the transatlantic connection by David A Wilson ( Book )
Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America; viz: life & adventures, the scarecrow, remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand: a spy, farewell to America, a court-martial, a retrospect by William Cobbett ( Book )
The scare-crow being an infamous letter, sent to Mr. John Oldden, threatening destruction to his house, and violence to the person of his tenant, William Cobbett ; with remarks on the same. By Peter Porcupine by William Cobbett ( )
Upstart talents : rhetoric and the career of reason in English romantic discourse, 1790-1820 by James Mulvihill ( Book )
William Cobbett and rural popular culture by Ian Dyck ( Book )
A plumb pudding for the humane, chaste, valiant, enlightened Peter Porcupine by Mathew Carey ( )
Peter Porcupine in America : pamphlets on republicanism and revolution by William Cobbett ( Book )
A full and accurate report of the trial of William Cobbett, Esq (before Lord Tenterden and a special jury) on Thursday, July 7, 1831, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall by William Cobbett ( )
Commerce defended an answer to the arguments by which Mr. Spence, Mr. Corbett, and others, have attempted to prove that commerce is not a source of national wealth by James Mill ( )
The life and letters of William Cobbett in England & America : based upon hitherto unpublished family papers by Lewis Saul Benjamin ( Book )

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Most widely held works by William Cobbett

Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry, and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family ... by William Cobbett ( )
104 editions published between 1822 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,781 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the Protestant reformation in England and Ireland by William Cobbett ( Book )
214 editions published between 1800 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,658 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Advice to young men : and (incidentally) to young women in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters addressed to a youth, a bachelor, a lover, a husband, a father, and a citizen or a subject by William Cobbett ( Book )
171 editions published between 1829 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
First published in 1830

Observations on the emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley and on the several addresses delivered to him on his arrival at New-York by William Cobbett ( )
102 editions published between 1794 and 2005 in English and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rural rides by William Cobbett ( Book )
74 editions published between 1853 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A grammar of the English language by William Cobbett ( Book )
132 editions published between 1818 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
William Cobbett's lessons on grammar, punctuation, and everything pertaining to writing well are conveyed in an intriguing form; namely, in letters to his son James Paul Cobbett. Cobbett's work cannot be properly understood outside of the context of his career; the grammar lessons found here are put in the service of expressing his political ideas

A year's residence in the United States of America: treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of housekeeping, and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and of the institutions of the country, civil, political, and religious by William Cobbett ( Book )
64 editions published between 1818 and 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Mr. Hulme's journal, made during a tour in the western countries of America, in which tour he visited Mr. Birkbeck's settlement. Mr. Cobbett's letters to Mr. Birkbeck, remonstrating ... on the numerous delusions, contained in his ... "Notes on a journey in America" and "Letters from Illinois": pt. 3 (p. [247]-344.)

A bone to gnaw, for the Democrats ; or, Observations on a pamphlet, entitled, "The political progress of Britain." by William Cobbett ( )
108 editions published between 1795 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Life of Andrew Jackson, president of the United States of America by William Cobbett ( Book )
39 editions published between 1834 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,017 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Paper against gold, or, The history and mystery of the Bank of England, of the debt, of the stocks, of the sinking fund, and of all the other tricks and contrivances, carried on by the means of paper money by William Cobbett ( )
37 editions published between 1820 and 2013 in English and held by 896 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letters on the late war between the United States and Great Britain : together with other miscellaneous writings, on the same subject by William Cobbett ( Book )
28 editions published between 1815 and 1985 in English and held by 738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described : together with observations on the diseases, defects and injuries, in all kinds of fruit and forest trees, as also, an account of a particular method of cure, made public by order of the British government by William Forsyth ( Book )
35 editions published between 1802 and 1955 in English and held by 704 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Democratic principles illustrated by example. By Peter Porcupine. Part the first by William Cobbett ( )
38 editions published between 1798 and 2005 in English and held by 678 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The political censor, or Monthly review of the most interesting political occurrences, relative to the United States of America by William Cobbett ( )
38 editions published in 1796 in English and held by 667 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The emigrant's guide, in ten letters, addressed to the taxpayers of England containing information of every kind, necessary to persons who are about to emigrate ; including several authentic and most interesting letters from English emigrants, now in America, to their relations in England by William Cobbett ( Book )
51 editions published between 1829 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A little plain English, addressed to the people of the United States on the treaty, negociated with His Britannic Majesty, and on the conduct of the president relative thereto ; in answer to "The letters of Franklin." : With a supplement containing an account of the turbulent and factious proceedings of the opposers of the treaty. by William Cobbett ( )
54 editions published between 1795 and 2005 in English and held by 649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cobbett's weekly political register ( )
in English and held by 648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Democratiad a poem, in retaliation, for the "Philadelphia jockey club." [Two lines of quotation] By a gentleman of Connecticut by Lemuel Hopkins ( )
55 editions published between 1795 and 2005 in English and held by 609 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A New-Year's gift to the Democrats ; or Observations on a pamphlet, entitled, "A vindication of Mr. Randolph's resignation." by William Cobbett ( )
46 editions published between 1796 and 2005 in English and held by 582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cobbett's legacy to parsons, or, Have the clergy of the established church an equitable right to the tithes, or to any other thing called church property, greater than the Dissenters have to the same? and ought there, or ought there not, to be a separation of the church from the state? in six letters addressed to the church-parsons in general ... by William Cobbett ( )
57 editions published between 1835 and 1947 in English and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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