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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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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