Cobbett'sWorks

Cobbett was a truly voluminous writer, and the Society aims to complete a full list of his works in due course. Below is a fairly comprehensive list of Cobbett's major works, which will be updated as members find the time and energy to do it!

List of Cobbett's Works

Books

Advice to Young Men and (Incidently) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life, London 1830.

The American Gardener; or a Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Fencing and Laying-Out of Gardens, London 1821.

Cottage Economy, London 1822.

The Emigrant’s Guide; In Ten Letters…, London 1829.

The English Gardener, London 1828.

A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters, New York, 1818.

A New French and English Dictionary. In Two Parts, (Still for sale on

Amazon in 2015 for between £27 and £50!), London 1833

A French Grammar, or Plain Instructions for the Learning of French, in a series of Letters, London 1824.

A Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales, London 1832 (still available on Amazon, 714 pages).

History of the Regency and Reign of George IV, 2 vols, London 1830-34.

Good Friday, London 1830.

Cobbett’s Legacy to Labourers, London, 1834, [1835].

Cobbett’s Legacy to Parsons, London, 1835.

Cobbett’s Legacy to Peel, first published in the Political Register, 24 Jan-28 Feb 1835, Cobbett's Register Office, London 1836.

The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, Philadelphia, 1796.

Manchester Lectures of 1831, London 1832.

Paper against Gold, London 1815.

Cobbett’s Poor Man’s Friend, London 1826-7 in parts, shortened and revised edition, 1831.

A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland… in parts, London, 1824-26; second part listing abbeys etc. confiscated, London 1827.

Elements of the Roman History, in English and French… the English by William Cobbett and the French by J.H. Sievrac, London, 1828.

An Abridged History of the Emperors, in French and English, by the same, London 1829.

Rural Rides, (originally published in the PR), London 1830.

The Soldier’s Friend, Anonymous, London 1792.

A Spelling Book with Appropriate Lessons in Reading, and with a Stepping Stone to English Grammar, London 1831.

Surplus Population: And Poor Law Bill. A Comedy in Three Acts, London 1835.

Cobbett’s Tour in Scotland, (1st published in the PR, `1832), London 1833.

A Treatise on Cobbett’s Corn, 1828.

The Woodlands: or, A Treatise on the Preparation of Ground for Planting; on the Planting; on the Cultivating… first published in numbers, London, December 1825 – March 1828.

A Year’s Residence in the United States of America, in three parts, New York, 1818-1819.

Letters

Letters To The Right Honourable Lord Hawksbury on the Peace with Buonaparte, London 1802.

Letters to Edward Thornton, 1797-1800, ed. GDH Cole, London 1937.

Periodicals

The Political Censor, 1796-7, (monthly), nine issues, Philadelphia.

Porcupine’s Gazette, March 1797- August 28 1799, Philadelphia. Six weekly numbers, 6 September – 11 October, and two further pamphlet issues, 19 &26 October 1799, Bustleton. Final Number, January 1800, New York.

The (American) Rush-Light (fortnightly), nos. 1-5, 1800, New York, no. 6 London 1800.

The Porcupine, 1800-1801, London.

Cobbett’s Political Register, (also known at various times as Cobbett’s Weekly Register, and other names, 88 volumes, 1802-1835, London.

Volume 89, July – September 1835 published by William Cobbett Junior.

Le Mercure Anglais (a French version of parts of the Register, 1803, London.

Cobbett’s Parliamentary Debates, 1804-1812, London.

Cobbett’s Spirit of the Public Journals, vol. 1, 1804-5 London, not continued.

Cobbett’s American Political Register, 1816, New York

Cobbett’s Evening Post, 1820, London.

Cobbett’s Parliamentary Register, 1820, London.

Cobbett’s Monthly Religious Tracts (continued as Cobbett’s Monthly Sermons, 1821-1822, London.

Cobbett’s Two-Penny Trash; or Politics for the Poor, 2 vols. London 1831-1832. (First published monthly July 1830 – July 1832, London.)

Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials, published by Cobbett London, 1809-1812, thereafter by T.B. Howell, and called Howell’s State Trials.

Publications and Translations

Impeachment of Mr Lafayette, translated from the French by William Cobbett, Philadelphia, 1793.

The Cannibals’ Progress; or the Dreadful Horrors of French Invasion, translated from the German by Anthony Aufrer, published by William Cobbett, Philadelphia, 1798.

Important Considerations for the People of This Kingdom, Anonymous, London, 1803.

Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, abridged and complied by William Cobbett, London 1834.

Martens Law of Nations: Summary of Law of Nations… by Mr Martens, translated from the French by William Cobbett, Philadelphia 1795.

Porcupine's Works
(Cobbett's pseudonym in America)

A Little Plain English, Addressed to the people of the United States, Philadelphia, 1795.

The Gros Mousqueton Diplomatique; or Diplomatic Blunderbuss… Philadelphia, 1796.

The Bloody Buoy, Thrown out as a Warning to the Political Pilots of America… Philadelphia, 1796.

A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, Philadelphia 1795.

A Kick for a Bite, Philadelphia 1795.

A New Year’s Gift to the Democrats, Philadelphia, 1796.

Observations on the Emigration of Dr Joseph Priestly, Anonymous, Philadelphia, 1794.

A Prospect from the Congress-Gallery… Philadelphia, 1796.

The Republican Judge or the American Liberty of the Press, (Revision of Democratic Judge for English Consumption), 1798, London.

The Scare-Crow, Philadelphia, 1796.

Porcupine’s Works, 12 vols., London 1801.