A treatise on Cobbett’s corn, containing instructions for propagating and cultivating the plant, and for harvesting and preserving the crop; and also an account of the several uses to which the produce is applied, with minute directions relative to each mode of application

London: published by William Cobbett, 183, Fleet-Street, 1828. First edition, 12mo, pp. 12 (ads for Cobbett's works), iv, [292]; uncut; collating [A]² B-N¹² O²; 3 full-page text illustrations (on leaves B6, F12, and G8); original brown paper-covered boards, recased and rebacked in red cloth, new printed label on spine, the title and table of contents printed on corn paper from the husks of the author's own crop, boards lightly rubbed, text clean and sound, very good. Cobbett was a farmer, politician, and author. He was a provocative and wide-ranging campaigner, pushing English loyalist positions in post-Revolutionary America, advocating for worker's rights, (truncated) campaigning for the gold standard, facing arrest for libel against the Spanish King, and protesting the treaty of Ameins. He had initially fled to America after trying and failing to confront corrupt military officers, and lost an election after refusing to purchase votes. He had an acquaintance with some of the Founding Fathers of America, and was responsible for the transportation of Thomas Paine's remains to England (a duty which he appears to have only half fulfilled, as rather than reinterring the bones it is believed he kept them.) His "Cobbett's corn" was a dwarf strain of corn found to be suited to the English climate. Gaines 86a. (Inventory #: 66583)