Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America / by William Cobbett.

Life & adventures -- The scarecrow -- Remarks of the pamphlets -- Talleyrand: a spy -- Farewell to America -- A court-martial -- A retrospect.

A selection of Cobbett's writings collected into a kind of autobiography up to the time of his return to America in 1800. Cf. Nonesuch century.

With half title.

Pages [2-3] and [8] 1st set and final page are blank.

Introduction by G.D.H. Cole.

"1800 copies have been printed for sale in England and America by T. & A. Constable Ltd., the University Press, Edinburgh, during May 1927, in Baskerville type upon Arches paper for the Nonesuch Press. The frontispiece, after the cartoon by Gillray, is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London"--Colophon.

Printed in Monotype Baskerville, with Caslon and Old Face. Cf. Drefys.

Binding: 1/4 black cloth with pink, blue and cream marbled paper over boards; spine title lettered in gilt:: Peter Porcupine. Untrimmed edges.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-163).

Drefys, J. Nonesuch Press, 41

Nonesuch. Nonesuch century, 41

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Provenance: label inside front cover: Quentin Pope Collection. Copy no. 1544. Acc. 131210.