Cobbett's Manchester Lectures in support of his Fourteen Reform Propositions: Which Lectures were delivered in the Minor Theatre in that town on the six last days of the year 1831.

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To which is subjoined A letter to Mr O'Connell on his Speech made in Dublin on the 4th of January 1832 against the Proposition for the establishing of Poor-Laws in Ireland. London: Published (by the Author) ... 1832. Sm. 8vo. (xii 180pp.). 1st edition. BOUND WITH by the same author: Paper Against Gold; or The History and Mystery of the Bank of England of the Debt of the Stocks of the Sinking Fund and of all the other tricks and contrivances carried on by the means of Paper Money. ... London: Printed and published by Wm. Cobbett 1828. (xviii 332pp.). With title-vignette. The two works bound together in one volume. Contemp. half calf (covers slightly rubbed). Slightly foxed but a fine compilation of these two major treatises on economic reform both published by the Author as a prospective parliamentarian and written during his intense political activity at this time. The material includes his attacks on the sinecure system the standing army the tithes and the Irish Church in which he demanded the wiping out of the National Debt by the sale of ecclesiastical estates and Crown lands. (Pearl pp. 177/8). Assoc. newspaper clipping loosely inserted.