Treatise On Cobbett's Corn Containing Instructions For Propagating and Cultivating the Plant, and For Harvesting and Preserving the Crop

Illustrated. Small 8vo. Modern pebbled violet cloth, leather label on spine. London: Published by William Cobbett, 1828. First Edition (?) In 1820 on returning from the United States, where he had fled fearing arrest for his arguably seditious writings, Cobbett established a plant nursery at Kensington, where he trialed a dwarf strain of maize he found growing in a French… Read more about this item