[American Newspapers] (Cobbett, William) Bound Volume of Porcupine's Gazette And United States Daily Advertiser, Group of Over 100 issues, 1797-99

Philadelphia: William Cobbett, March 29, 1797-March 20, 1799. Vol. I, Nos. 22-34, 36, 37-42, 44-64, 240, 241, 247-252, 257, 335, 453-455; Vol. III, Nos. 467-469, 473-478, 481-483, 485, 486, 489-495, 497-503, 505, 507, 510-513, 516-519, 543, 545, 563-566, 569-571, 574, 575, 588-591, 602-604, 526, 528, 529, 537, 548, 552, 554, 558, 560, 578, 576, 585, 587, 607, 605, 608, 610, 612-621; Vol. IV, Nos. 622, 623, 625, 626, 628, 631, 634, and 635. Folio. Volume also bound with one issue of Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser (No. 6053, August 28, 1798); one issue of the Philadelphia Gazette & Universal Daily Advertiser (No. 3138, December 29, 1798), and two other unknown issues. Contemporary three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked, worn; contents foxed with scattered stains; several issues with contemporary ownership signatures; several issues torn or with sections missing.

An extensive run of Porcupine's Gazette, a Philadelphia daily newspaper published by English polemicist William Cobbett (1763-1835) during his time in America.

Cobbett, a lifelong political writer and instigator, immigrated to Philadelphia at the perfect time in 1793 during the height of power for the political newspaper medium. Papers such as John Fenno's Gazette of the United States, and Benjamin Franklin Bache's Philadelphia Aurora had become battlegrounds for ideas of the Federalist and Democratic Republican parties. Cobbett established Porcupine's Gazette in March of 1797, often defending Federalist positions and British interests, which put him at odds with Bache's Aurora and its Jeffersonian philosophies that supported the French Revolution. Cobbett published the paper early 1800, when he returned to England.

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How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[American Newspapers] (Cobbett, William) Bound Volume of Porcupine's Gazette And United States Daily Advertiser, Group of Over 100 issues, 1797-99

How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[American Newspapers] (Cobbett, William) Bound Volume of Porcupine's Gazette And United States Daily Advertiser, Group of Over 100 issues, 1797-99

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