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London, England: Reeves and Turner, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Two matching volumes: 12mo, 7.75 in. x 5.1 in., Vol I: pp. xlviii, 406; Vol II: pp. 409. Illustrated with fold-out map frontispiece (Vol I). Green cloth boards with gilt tree branch and title to front, and gilt title and figure on horse to spine. Untrimmed bottom edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Lightly foxed endpapers and light staining to fore-edge.

London: Peter Davies, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. Fine. 10.5" by 7". John Nash; A. E. Taylor. A limited edition three volume edition of William Cobbett's most famous work, 'Rural Rides'. A limited edition set, of which one-thousand numbered copies were produced. This set is out of series, and unnumbered.'Rural Rides' documents a series of journeys on horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the Midlands. William Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, and his views on the countryside are from a fellow farmer and a social reformer. William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer, and Member of Parliament. He was passionate about ending poverty of farm labourers, and sought an en to sinecurists and 'tax-eaters'. Illustrated endpapers of a map of Cobbett's country by A. E. Taylor. Alfred Edward Taylor was a mapmaker and artist in the early twentieth Century. Though prolific and successful during his life, his work has since been overlooked.With numerous in-text… Read More