[Cobbett, William]:

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THE BLOODY BUOY, THROWN OUT AS WARNING TO THE POLITICAL PILOTS OF ALL NATIONS. OR A FAITHFUL RELATION OF A MULTITUDE OF ACTS OF HORRID BARBARITY, SUCH AS THE EYE NEVER WITNESSED...UNTIL THE ... 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." An unusual collected group of British editions of Cobbett's American works.

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