Rural Rides

Lot 328
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Sold
$ 1 386
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 752860
Lot 328 | Rural Rides
Estimate value
$ 500 – 800
Rural RidesWilliam Cobbett, 1825-1930COBBETT, William (1763-1835). Rural Rides. London: William Cobbett, 1830.Very fine first edition. "Cobbett has long been one of my favorite characters ... As a conservative emigrant in Philadelphia in the 1790s, under the pseudonym "Peter Porcupine," he castigated the Democrats." Eventually Cobbett went too far and had to flee back to England to avoid a libel suit by Benjamin Rush. "In England, he did an about-face and became a prominent spokesman for social justice and Parliamentary reform. " There is a little bit of everything in Rural Rides ... His passion and indignation never cease, his postive joy in dispute bubbles from every page, his pure pleasure in the countryside itself brims over." Narratives of Personal Experience 27.Octavo in 12s (179 x 110mm). Original buckram-backed boards, paper printed spine label (spine creased, front hinge cracked). Provenance: Colonel William Inglis, 1764-1835, officer in the Napoleonic Wars and the originator of "die hard" (armorial bookplate).
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
USA
Preview
26.05.2022 – 26.05.2022
Phone +1 212 636 2000
Fax +1 212 636 4930
Email
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase
Shipping Postal service
Courier service
pickup by yourself
Payment methods Wire Transfer
Business hoursBusiness hours
Mo 09:30 – 17:00   
Tu 09:30 – 17:00   
We 09:30 – 17:00   
Th 09:30 – 17:00   
Fr 09:30 – 17:00   
Sa closed
Su closed