Cobbett's England: A Selection from the Writings of William Cobbett (The Folio Society)

276 pp. Edited with an introduction by John Derry, illustrated with engravings by James Gillray. The boards are printed with a pastiche of an early nineteenth-century hand-bill or poster, set within a typographical border in Thorowgood and Egiziano types, reading 'A Selection from the writings of William Cobbett, giving a view of Cobbett the man, Cobbett and his contemporaries, Cobbett the Parliamentary Reformer, Cobbett the traditionalist, Cobbett and contemporary social problems, Cobbett and the changing face of England, taken from Peter Porcupine, Rural Rides, The Political Register &c &c'. William Cobbett was a radical political reformer focusing on economic and religious issues. He was a force behind the Reform Act 1832, which earned him a seat in Parliament.