RURAL RIDES IN THE COUNTIES OF SURREY, KENT, SUSSEX, HANTS, BERKS, OXFORD, BUCKS, WILTS, SOMERSET, GLOUCESTER, HEREFORD, SALOP, WORCESTER, STAFFORD, LEICESTER, HERTFORD, ESSEX, SUFFOLK, NORFOLK, CAMBRIDGE, HUNTINGDON, NOTTINGHAM, LINCOLN, YORK, LANCASTER, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. DURING THE YEARS 1821 TO 1832; WITH ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS. (TWO VOLUMES); A New Edition, with Notes, by Pitt Cobbett by Cobbett, William (and Pitt Cobbett) - 1908

London: Peter Davies, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. Fine. 10.5" by 7". John Nash; A. E. Taylor. A limited edition three volume edition of William Cobbett's most famous work, 'Rural Rides'. A limited edition set, of which one-thousand numbered copies were produced. This set is out of series, and unnumbered.'Rural Rides' documents a series of journeys on horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the Midlands. William Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, and his views on the countryside are from a fellow farmer and a social reformer. William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer, and Member of Parliament. He was passionate about ending poverty of farm labourers, and sought an en to sinecurists and 'tax-eaters'. Illustrated endpapers of a map of Cobbett's country by A. E. Taylor. Alfred Edward Taylor was a mapmaker and artist in the early twentieth Century. Though prolific and successful during his life, his work has since been overlooked.With numerous in-text… Read More