A Treatise of 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; with an addition, containing a statement of the result of experience up to the Harvest of 1831

London: William Cobbett, 1832.

Second edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5 ins); pp vi + [342]; 3 plates. Bound in contemporary full crelativerimson Morocco with a circular design, in gilt and red, of a corn picker plying his trade to both front and back boards. Additionally, the boards are edged with a wide, floral border in gilt. Five gilt floral emblems to spine between ornate gilt bands. Top edeg gilt, other untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Endpapers well foxed. Text pages slightly toned. A handsome copy. Cobbett's Corn is a lesser known work book by the famous pamphleteer and farmer. The bibliographer Morris L. Pearl notes that "in this most entertainingly written treatise, Cobbett skilfully blended agricultural and political advice with fascinating reminiscences. Contemptuous of his critics and enemies, he waxed lyrical at the prospect of English farm-labourers seeing 'this beautiful crop growing in all their gardens … instead of the infamous Potato'" (Pearl, William Cobbett (1953), no. 154).