A year's residence in the United States of America : treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of house-keeping and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and, of the institutions of the country, civil, political and religious : In three parts. / By William Cobbett. ; Part I[-III] ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.

Contributor:

Cobbett, William, 1763-1835, publisher.

Clayton & Kingsland, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Agriculture--United States.

Agriculture.

United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Richardson, N. (Nathaniel) (autograph)

Physical Description:

432 pages ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Cobbett's residence in the U.S.A.

Place of Publication:

New-York : Printed for the author by Clayton and Kingsland, no 15 Cedar-Street., 1818[-1819].

Notes:

Parts 1 and 2 copyright by William Cobbett on June 6, 1818, and Feb. 4, 1819.

Each part has separate title page; parts 2 and 3 have imprint: New-York: Sold at no. 53 Vesey-Street, where all orders will be attended to. Clayton and Kingsland, printers. 1819. Paged continuously.

Part 2 dedicated to Mr. Richard Hinxman, of Chilling in Hampshire; part 3 to Timothy Brown, Esq. of Peckham Lodge, Surry.

Includes index.

"Error": p. 426.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Nathl. Richardson, Senior, Byberry.

Culture Class Collection copy has additions written in ms. to the index.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 43654

Shaw & Shoemaker, 47652

Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 77a

OCLC:

692593966