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A Year’s Residence, in the United States of America.  In Three Parts.  Part One.

Treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of housekeeping, and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people, and of the institutions of the country, civil, political, and religious.

Author:

William Cobbett

Publisher:

Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, London (James McCreery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London)

Date, Edition:

1818, First Edition, London

Pages

186 pages with 10 pages of British ads

Dust Jacket:

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Cover:

Plain gray paper over boards with cloth backstrip (pretty much gone) and corners, well worn/soiled, front board detached along with first 16 pages, back board still attached

Interior:

Pages overall quite bright with light rippling, title page has a hole worn through at the words “Part 1” at center of page, pages untrimmed

Size:

9 x 5 3/4 inches

ISBN or LCCN:

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Description:

Less common British first edition of William Cobbett’s A Year’s Residence in the United States of America, Part One.  Contents include “A General Preface to the Three Parts,” Chapter 1, “Description of the Situation and Extend of Long Island, and also of the Face of the Country, and an Account of the Climate, Seasons, and Soil,” and Chapter 2, “Ruta Baga.  Culture, Mode of preserving, and Uses of the Ruta Baga, sometimes called the Russia, and sometimes the Swedish, Turnup.”