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Tales from Chaucer in prose: designed chiefly for the use of young
persons. 1833, 1870 (carefully rev).
Adam the gardener. 1834. A boys’ book.
The riches of Chaucer. 1835, 1870.
Carmina minima. 1859.
Shakespeare characters: chiefly those subordinate. 1863.
Molière-characters. Edinburgh 1865.
On the comic writers of England. GM Apr–Dec 1871. On Chaucer;
Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Butler; Addison and Steele;
Swift; Burlesque writers; English satirists: Wycherley and
Congreve.
Clarke also edited Nyren, Young cricketers’ tutor, 1833, and the text of
most of the vols in Gilfillan’s Lib Edn of the British poets. For his collaborations
with his wife Mary Cowden Clarke and for her biographical sketch of
him, see col 2221.
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Altick, R. D. The Cowden Clarkes. New York 1948. Contains a list of
writings of Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
Blunden, E. Letters from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to
Alexander Main 1864–86. Keats–Shelley Memorial Bull 3 1951.
William Cobbett, ‘Peter Porcupine’ 1763–1835
Cobbett’s mss and correspondence are widely scattered both in Britain and the
USA. A series of six letters to Sir Francis Burdett dated 1815–17 has also
recently come to light in the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of
Modern Historical Documents, Moscow. Details of mss held at British locations
are available in LR. Locations of mss in the USA are listed in G. Spater,
William Cobbett: the poor man’s friend (see below). For further details of
Cobbett’s publication history in America, see the authoritative bibliography
by Gaines (below).
Bibliographies
Muirhead, A. M. An introduction to a bibliography of Cobbett.
Library 4th ser 20 1939.
Pearl, M. L. Cobbett: a bibliographical account of his life and times.
Oxford 1953.
Gaines, P. W. William Cobbett and the United States 1792–1835: a
bibliography. Worcester MA 1971.
The William Cobbett collection at Adelphi University. New York
1982.
Selections
The works of Peter Porcupine. Philadelphia 1795, 1796 (variously
collected). Also as Porcupine’s political tracts, Philadelphia 1797,
and Porcupine’s works, 2 vols Philadelphia [1797] (variously collected).
Porcupine’s works. 12 vols 1801, Dayton OH 1970 (microform edn).
Porcupine revived. New York 1813.‘By William Cobbett’; anon
editor.
The life of William Cobbett, dedicated to his sons. 1835, 1835,
Philadelphia 1835.
Selections from Cobbett’s political works. Ed J. M. and J. P. Cobbett
1835–7 (weekly pts and 6 vols). Selections from Porcupine’s works
and political register.
The beauties of Cobbett. [Ed J. Oldfield] 1836 (monthly pts and 1 vol).
Selections from Porcupine’s works.
The last of the Saxons. Ed E. P. Hood 1854. Autobiographical selections.
Mr Cobbett’s remarks on our Indian empire. 1857. Selections from
Political Register 1804–22; perhaps ed J. M. Cobbett.
The days of good Queen Bess; Social effects of the Reformation; The
suppression of the English monasteries. 1917. 3 booklet selections
by the Catholic Truth Soc from History of the Protestant
Reformation 1917; Social effects rptd 1929; tr Polish 1947.
A history of the last hundred days of English freedom. Ed J. L.
Robert Carruthers | William Cobbett
Hammond 1921, rptd Westport CT 1971. Selections from Political
Register 1817.
Selections, with Hazlitt’s essay. Ed A. M. D. Hughes, Oxford 1923,
rptd 1925, 1935, 1951, 1961.
Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine, with other records of his
early career. Ed G. D. H. Cole 1927, rptd New York 1970.
Autobiographical selections to 1800.
The progress of a ploughboy. Ed W. Reitzel 1933; 1947 (rev as The
autobiography of Cobbett), rptd 1967. Autobiographical selections
to 1835.
The opinions of William Cobbett. Ed G. D. H. and M. Cole 1944, rptd
Kettering 1977. Selections from Political Register 1802–35.
Cobbett and Lamb. Ed W. V. Aughterson, Melbourne 1958.
Cobbett’s England. Ed J. Derry 1968.
Cobbett’s country book. Ed R. Ingrams, Newton Abbott 1974.
Cobbett in Ireland: a warning to England. Ed D. Knight 1984.
Cobbett’s America. Ed J. E. Morpurgo 1985.
Peter Porcupine in America. Ed D. A. Wilson 1994.
Collected social and political works. Ed N. Thompson and D.
Eastwood 1998.
William Cobbett: selected writings. Ed L. Nattrass 1998.
Hostile selections
The cameleon. 1807.
Cobbett against himself. 1808.
Elements of reform. 1809; rev as Parliamentary reform, Manchester
and Bolton 1816.
The friend of the people. [1816–17.]
The beauties of Cobbett. 3 pts [1819–20], Dublin 1820; rev as Politics
for the people, Birmingham [1819–20] (2 edns).
Cobbett’s reflections on religion, no 1; on politics, no 2, Sunderland
[1819], Manchester no 2 1832; and Life of Thomas Paine, Durham
1819 (see below).
The book of wonders. 2 pts 1821 (selections: Cobbett versus Wright).
Cobbett’s gridiron. 1822; rev as Cobbett’s cardinal virtues,
Manchester 1832.
Cobbett’s book of the Roman Catholic Church. 1825.
The Political Mountebank. 11 nos Preston 1826.
The poor man’s friend. 1826.
Cobbett’s Penny Trash. 3 nos 1831 (no 1 also as Cobbett’s Genuine
Penny Trash).
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The soldier’s friend. 1792, 1793. Anon; written with or by Cobbett.
Le nomenclature anglais. Philadelphia 1794.
Observations on the emigration of Dr Priestley. Philadelphia 1794,
1794 (author and publisher anon), New York 1794, London 1794 (3
edns), [Liverpool?] 1794, Birmingham 1794, Bath 1794, Bristol
1794, Philadelphia 1795 (‘3rd edn’ naming publisher with Story
of a farmer’s bull, Address), 1796 (‘4th edn’ naming Peter
Porcupine as author), 1796, 1797, 1798, London 1798, 1974,
Philadelphia 1974.
A bone to gnaw for the Democrats. Pt 1 Philadelphia 1795 (3 edns;
anon in 1st), 1796 (‘4th edn’ by ‘Peter Porcupine’), 1797 (‘3rd edn’
pbd by Cobbett); pt 2 Philadelphia 1795, 1795, 1797, 1797; pts 1–2
London 1797 (with A rod for the backs of the critics by ‘Humphrey
Hedgehog’ [J. Gifford]).
A kick for a bite. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1795, 1796.
A little plain English. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1795,
Boston 1795, London 1795, Philadelphia 1796.
Le tuteur anglais. Philadelphia 1795, Paris 1801 (‘Le Maître
d’anglais’, ‘2ème ’ edn), 1803 (‘3ème ’ edn), Philadelphia 1805 (‘2nd
edn’), Paris 1810 (‘4ème ’ edn), 1815, 1816 (‘5ème ’ edn), 1817 (‘new
edn’), 1819, 1823 (new edn rev J. Perrin), 1827, 1830, 1832, 1850,
1854, 1861 (‘35ème ’ edn); also numerous pirated edns.
The bloody buoy. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1796, 1796,
Reading PA 1797 (Ger trn as Die Blut-Fahne), (facs and English
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