English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763-1835

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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

William Cobbett. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1801, after J. R. Smith.

William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

William Cobbett dressed as a farmer marches out of step towards the sea behind a recruiting serjeant and a drummer-boy. Etching by J. Gillray, 1809.

William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.

Three officers stand at the bar in a high panelled hall crowded with people within the Chelsea hospital as William Cobbett escapes in a boat in the distance seen through an open door. Etching by J. Gillray, 1809.

William Cobbett dressed as a Serjeant-Major furtively copies regimental documents in a room with a bolted door assisted by Corporal Bestland. Etching by J. Gillray, 1809.

[William Cobbett correspondence].

Englishmen read!!! : a plain letter to the King, from the people of England : containing a faithful statement of facts, with a list of sinecures & pensions, amounting to upwards of ten millions annually received by the nobility for doing nothing.

A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett].

Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.

Cottage economy containing information ... / [William Cobbett].

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William Cobbett

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[William Cobbett correspondence].

Englishmen read!!! : a plain letter to the King, from the people of England : containing a faithful statement of facts, with a list of sinecures & pensions, amounting to upwards of ten millions annually received by the nobility for doing nothing.

A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett].

Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.

Cottage economy containing information ... / [William Cobbett].

William Cobbett

Images from the collections

Images featuring William Cobbett

Works from the collections

[William Cobbett correspondence].

Englishmen read!!! : a plain letter to the King, from the people of England : containing a faithful statement of facts, with a list of sinecures & pensions, amounting to upwards of ten millions annually received by the nobility for doing nothing.

A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett].

Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.

Cottage economy containing information ... / [William Cobbett].

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