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Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-23. Paperback. Good.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The bloody buoy thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of America:A faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity.

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Henry Witmer. Good with no dust jacket. 1823. Second Edition. Hardcover. Heavy wear on marbled paper boards with leather on spine. If there was corner leather it was rubbed away along with the spine ends. Rubbing on edges with hand-written spine title barely legible. Heavy foxing, old dampstains, and dog-earring of endpapers and text pages. Name of Joseph Worrel, dated 1837, on first free endpaper. First edition was published in 1796, with this edition by a publisher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania scarce. William Cobbett was a British pamphleteer who emigrated to America in the 1790s and criticized its version of democracy. He had spent time in France in 1792 and here relates the atrocities of the French Revolution as a warning to the Americans on nationalist sovereignty. For legal reasons he moved back to England in 1800 where he continued publishing controversial political arguments, resulting in imprisonment for libel. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 116 pp .

London, 1797. Three works bound in one. [2],xvi,259,[1]; ix,58; [2],96,xcv,[2],97-175pp. plus 3pp. of advertisements at rear. Preface misbound in last title. 12mo. Contemporary gilt calf, spine gilt, leather label. Front hinge weak. Edgeworn. Otherwise just about very good. A contemporary volume of London editions of three famous Cobbett works. The first, THE BLOODY BUOY, styled on the titlepage as the third edition, is described by Pearl as "a lurid account of atrocities alleged to have been committed by the revolutionaries in France..." - Pearl. The second title, in a first London edition, is Porcupine's autobiography, and a chief source for details of his childhood and early career. The last work, A BONE TO GNAW, is in a later London edition (after the first American of 1795), published by John Wright, who added A ROD FOR THE BACKS OF THE CRITICS, "by Humphrey Hedgehog," which is described by Pearl as "a labored attack on the British reformers and the hostile reviewers of Cobbett's OBSERVATIONS.… Read More