Cobbett's Paper against gold: containing the history and mystery of the Bank of England the funds the debt the sinking fund the bank stoppage the lowering and the raising of the value of paper-money; and shewing that taxation pauperism poverty misery and crimes have all increased and ever must increase with a funding system. 1817 [Hardcover] by Cobbett William - 2020

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: W. Cobbett, 1817. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original binding with blue paper covered boards and brown paper covered spine. The top layer of the spine paper is mostly absent, with strings revealed. Hinge and text-block loosened but in tact. Browning to pages, especially closed page edge , but otherwise pages smooth and clean and entirely legible, text printed in two columns. A good original copy.

Written while in Prison for Treasonous Libel.Cobbett's Paper Against Gold: containing the History and Mystery of the Bank of England, the Funds, the Debt, the Sinking Fund, the Bank Stoppage, the lowering and raising of the value of Paper-Money; and shewing that Taxation, Pauperism, Poverty, Misery and Crimes have all increased, and ever must increase, with a Funding system8vo. Original ¼-paper-backed gray boards. Printed by William Molineux . Published by William Cobbett. N.D. (1817) First Edition. An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, William Cobbett gained a reputation as a rabble rouser, famed for his political publications aimed at working class readers. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm laborers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was found guilty of treasonous libel on 15 June 1810 after objecting in his Weekly Political Register to the flogging at Ely of local… Read More

[ London, 1817. viii,470 numbered columns. Contemporary boards, rebacked with plain paper spine. Untrimmed. Scattered foxing. Overall quite good. The second edition, after the first separate edition in two volumes of 1815. Cobbett rails against the paper-money system from the confines of Newgate Prison. "PAPER AGAINST GOLD is a collection of thirty-two 'letters' or articles (first published in the POLITICAL REGISTER, 1 September 1810 - 30 September 1815), all but the last three of which Cobbett proudly addressed from the 'State Prison, Newgate.' Cobbett in prison, however, was almost as active as Cobbett free...[he] had begun to see the growth of paper-money and the debt as twin evils which could bring a national catastrophe..." - Pearl. PEARL 81. REESE, FEDERAL HUNDRED 57 (ref).