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COBDEN, Richard (Pseud. A Manchester Manufacturer) : Russia (AND) England, Ireland and America (AND) True Tales of the Irish Peasantry (AND) Ireland & O'Connell

William Tait, Edinburgh, 1836

The 4 works bound together in contemporaryblind embossed brown cloth, extremities worn and frayed, the contents clean and tight. Only the first work has a title page; the other three are bound without title. The first two works are important early Cobden titles, the second being his first separate publication, , and are extremely scarce in original printing. In 1835 he published his first pamphlet, entitled England, Ireland and America, by a Manchester Manufacturer. Cobden advocated the principles of peace, non-intervention, retrenchment and free trade to which he continued faithful. He paid a visit to the United States, landing in New York on 7 June 1835. He devoted about three months to this tour, passing rapidly through the seaboard states and the adjacent portion of Canada, and collecting as he went large stores of information respecting the condition, resources and prospects of the nation. Another work appeared towards the end of 1836, under the title of Russia. It was designed to combat a wild outbreak of Russophobia inspired by David Urquhart. It contained also a bold indictment of the whole system of foreign policy founded on ideas of the balance of power and the necessity of large armaments for the protection of commerce.

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