[Rarebooks] fa: RICHARD COBDEN - 1793 AND 1853 (and) LETTER TO RICHARD COBDEN re. NATIONAL DEFENCE 1853

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Richard Cobden: 1793 and 1853, in Three Letters. London: James Ridgway, 1853. Second edition. Thick 8vo pamphlet; 140 pp. Disbound from a nonce volume with remnants of earlier binding on the spine; title-page coming loose, binding a bit tender but holding; a few faint spots to the title, otherwise very clean and fresh. Richard Cobden (1804-1865), the redoubtable Radical politician who was almost single-handedly responsible for the repeal of the notorious Corn Laws, here argues against those "alarmists" who, predicting an invasion attempt by Napoleon III, were calling for war with France. Such a war, he argues, would be as costly and unnecessary as the war with Revolutionary France that began in 1793.

R. Mortimer Glover: National Defence. A Letter to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Manchester: Longman, Brown, & Co. [etc.], 1853. FIRST EDITION. Pamphlet-sized 8vo; [2] + 32 + [2]; with the half-title and final leaf of notes. The author argues for a strong military buildup in the face of threats from Napoleon III of France; this in reply to a pamphlet by Cobden (see our other auctions) in which the Radical politician contended that such "alarmist" measures were unwarranted. Disbound from a nonce volume with remnants of earlier binding on the spine; early owner's inked page numbers in the upper corners; light creasing; half-title and last leaf with an early owner's erasable penciled drawings of what appear to be road intersections and river crossings (perhaps the route of a projected French invasion?); otherwise clean and sound, leaves securely bound.