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Cobbett, William The American Gardener; or, a Treatise on the Situation, Soil ...of Gardens; on the Making and Managing of...Green-Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Flowers.
London: Clement, 1821. First edition. In original boards, title label (“Five shillings boards”). Several engraved illustrations, untrimmed pages. Previous owner’s bookplate (off-setting), hinges just starting, a few spots on end papers. Generally a clean, tight copy.
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Cobbett, William The Cottage Economy
London: the Author, 1835. New edition (pp. [iv], 199, index, adverts). Small folio (19cm) in modern half morocco over red cloth, gilt titles and decoration. Cobbett’s remarks address the ‘labouring classes of this kingdom’ who, he believed, could establish and make themselves independent for food and rainment on as little as a quarter acre, and point out practical means whereby the economy, or management, of their households can be improved. So there is discussion of brewing beer, making bread, salting mutton, keeping bees, and fashioning hats and bonnets from dried native grasses. The Cottage Economy was Cobbett’s most successful and influential publication. A hundred years later, in the midst of the great Depression, M. G. Kains published Five Acres and Independence, in effect an updated version of Cobbett, intending to point the way out of the disastrous economic circumstances of those times. The acreage was larger but the theme was the same. A clean, bright, attractive copy.
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Cobbett, William The Woodlands
London: the Author, 1825. First edition (unpaginated, index, adverts). Two b&w plates (trenching a field, pruning). Tall octavo in faded blue-green cloth with impressed decorations; adverts at end promote Cobbett’s enterprises as seedsman and publisher. William Cobbett (1763- 1835) was an energetic political and social journalist and propagandist whose Political Register for many years urged reforms such as universal suffrage and opposed the more grasping policies of British governments in the years prior to the Reform Bill of 1832. Woodlands, comprising six hundred numbered paragraphs which describe the characteristics and best uses for all sorts of trees together with their propagation, fits with Cobbett’s Cottage Economy (1821), Treatise on Corn (1828), and The English Garden (1829) as a collection of self-help manuals aimed at the practical education and improvement of the lives of country people whom Cobbett (rightly) thought oppressed and discouraged by forces centred in London, which Cobbett called that ‘great Wen’. Some of the improvements were of course better than others-- for example, Cobbett recommends trenching fields (a form of double-digging) to a depth of two feet, a suggestion which induces sympathetic back pain in the reader. See Ian Dyck’s admirable biographical sketch of Cobbett (ODNB) for a good deal more. This attractive copy, its spine skilfully repaired, apparently once in the library of the department store magnate Sir Ernest Debenham, Bart. (1865- 1952), Braintspuddle, Dorset. Very nice indeed.
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