Illus mclaren william (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. H/b; d/w; vg/vg-; 8vo; 264pp; rusty pink cloth with silver gilt decoration to cover; silver gilt lettering to spine; maps to eps (Outer & Inner Hebrides & Scotland) ; gift inscription (not author) on fep; d/w price clipped and minor chipping to edges; a true story written around the West Highlands, with some names changed. ; Decorations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages. Illustrated by William McLaren (illustrator). …

Boards in slip-case. 1st thus. Original illustrated boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, noes and index, pp xiii, 502. Near fine condition in llike slipcase. William Cobbett (1763 - 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer. He advocated for the poor and working class. In 1822 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 an agriculturist and a social reformer. He published his observations in serial form in the radical 'Political Register', the newspaper which he founded. Joe McLaren [Illus.] (illustrator).…