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• Preface.
• The Life of Richard Cobden
• Chapter I.: Early Life.
• Chapter II.: Commercial and Mental Progress.
• Chapter III.: Travels In West and East.
• Chapter IV.: The Two Pamphlets.
• Chapter V.: Life In Manchester, 1837–9.
• Chapter VI.: The Foundation of the League.
• Chapter VII.: The Corn Laws.
• Chapter VIII.: Cobden Enters Parliament—First Session.
• Chapter IX.: Cobden As an Agitator.
• Chapter X.: The New Corn Law.
• Chapter XI.: Sir Robert Peel’s New Policy.
• Chapter XII.: Renewed Activity of the League—Cobden and Sir Robert Peel—Rural Campaign.
• Chapter XIII.: The Session of 1844—Factory Legislation—The Constituencies.
• Chapter XIV.: Bastiat—New Tactics—Activity In Parliament—Maynooth Grant—Private Affairs.
• Chapter XV.: The Autumn of 1845.
• Chapter XVI.: Repeal of the Corn Laws and Fall of the Government.
• Chapter XVII.: Correspondence With Sir Robert Peel—Cessation of the Work of the League.
• Chapter XVIII.: Tour Over Europe.
• Chapter XIX.: Election For the West Riding.—Purchase of Dunford.—Correspondence.
• Chapter XX.: Miscellaneous Correspondence On Social and Political Movements.
• Chapter XXI.: The Don Pacifico Debate—The Papal Aggression—Correspondence With Mr. Bright On Reform—Kossuth.
• Chapter XXII.: The Protectionists In Office.
• Chapter XXIII.: The Panic of 1853.
• Chapter XXIV.: The Crimean War.
• Chapter XXV.: Death of His Son.
• Chapter XXVI.: Chinese Affairs—Cobden’s Motion—The Dissolution.
• Chapter XXVII.: The Indian Mutiny—Private Affairs—Second Journey to America.
• Chapter XXVIII.: Return From America.—The New Ministry.
• Chapter XXIX.: The French Treaty.
• Chapter XXX.: Holiday and Return to Paris.
• Chapter XXXI.: The Tariff—The Fortification Scheme.
• Chapter XXXII.: The Policy of the Commercial Treaty.
• Chapter XXXIII.: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1859–60—Paris—Return to England.
• Chapter XXXIV.: The American War—Fortification Schemes—International Law.
• Chapter XXXV.: Correspondence With Mr. Delane.
• Chapter XXXVI.: The Danish War—Last Speeches In Parliament—Correspondence.
• Chapter XXXVII.: Speech At Rochdale—The Land Question—Correspondence—Last Days and Death.
• Chapter XXXVIII.: Conclusion.
• Appendix
• Note A. (see P. 115).
• Cobden to W. C. Hunt On the Hours of Labour.
• Full Text of the Last Letter Written By Mr Cobden
• Bibliography of Richard Cobden, Based On the British Museum Catalogue
• Biography, Criticism Etc

Biography, Criticism Etc

Apjohn, L. Richard Cobden and the Free Traders. [By L. Apjohn.] [1881.] “Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century.” Vol. iv. [1881, etc.] 8vo.

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Ashworth (H.). Recollections of Richard Cobden ... and the Anti-Corn Law League. London, Manchester [printed], 1877. 8vo.

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—[Second edition.] London [1878]. 8vo.

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Bastiat (Frédéric). Cobden et le Ligue, ou l’agitation Anglaise pour la liberté du commerce, etc. Paris, Senlis [printed], 1845. 8vo.

1391. g. 14.

Blackman, E. L. Our Relations with America. A reply to the arguments of Mr. Cobden ... as to the supply of ammunition of war to the belligerents. Manchester, [1863]. 8vo.

8175. e. 1. (1.)

Brett (J.). Calculator. Free Trade. Cobden, Bright, Gladstone, ... Fawcett, collated and examined. Pp. 63. Effingham Wilson: London, 1886. 8vo.

8229. i. 18. (4.)

Brewster, D. The Radical Party; its Principles, Objects, and Leaders—Cobden, etc. Manchester, 1867. 8vo.

8138. cc. 10. (10.)

Bright (Right Hon. J.). Speeches delivered in Bradford on the occasion of the inauguration of the Cobden Memorial, ... with a sketch of the history of Cobden, the Anti-Corn Law League. Revised by Mr. Bright. London, Bradford [printed, 1877]. 8vo.

8138. df. 5. (11.)

Bullock (Thomas Austin). Richard Cobden. (A study for young men.) London, [1866]. 8vo.

10817. cc. 21. (8.)

Cashin (T. F.). Free Trade Fallacies; or Cobden confuted. An exposition on the existing phase of progress and poverty, etc. Pp. xvi.–69. Wyman & Sons: London, 1886. 8vo.

8229. bbb. 53. (12.)

Chevalier (Michel). Free Trade in Gold, being a reply to the Cobden-Chevalier treatise, “on the probable decline in the value of gold,” also an exposition of the French schemes on the currency now maturing.” London, 1861. 12mo.

8223. a. 49.

Cobden, Richard. Analysis of Mr. Cobden’s “Cure for the Russo-Phobia” [in his pamphlet entitled “Russia.” By a Manchester Manufacturer.] Pp. 33. [J. Ridgway & Sons: London, 1836.] 8vo.

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—A Letter from a Crow to Mr. Cobden. Translated from the original by a Northamptonshire Squire. London, 1844. 4to.

1391. g. 31.

—Banquet offert à Richard Cobden par la Société des Économistes le 18 aoῦt 1846. Extrait du No. 57 du Journal des économistes. Paris, 1846. 8vo.

1391. k. 37.

—Bordeaux. Association pour la liberté des échanges. Publications de l’Association. Banquet offert à Richard Cobden le 1er Septembre 1846. Discours de Richard Cobden. (Bordeaux) [1846]. 8vo.

8245. cc. 23. (3.)

—Discorsi pronunziati al Banchetto dato in Livorno a Richard Cobden, il 12 Maggio, 1847. Livorno, 1847. 8vo.

8245. f. 6.

—Letter to Richard Cobden on the Scotch Law of Entail. By a Scotch Landlord. Inverness, 1847. 8vo.

6583. b.

—A letter to Richard Cobden in reply to “1793 and 1853.” By a Manchester Man. Manchester, 1853. 8vo.

8138. f.

—“The Three Panics” dispelled. A reply to the historical episode of Richard Cobden. Reprinted ... from “Colburn’s United Service Magazine.” London, 1862. 8vo.

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—[Reception at the Accademia Pontaniana.] Academies. Naples.—Società Pontaniana, etc., afterwards Accademia Pontaniana. Tornato ordinaria del 21 Marzo 1847. [For the reception of Richard Cobden as a member of Academy.] [Naples, 1847.] 8vo.

8207. h. 1. (6.)

Richard Cobden. Roi des, Belges. [Being a reply to Richard Cobden’s letter to l’Economiste Belge on the fortifications of Antwerp.] Par un Ex-Colonel de la Garde Civique. Dédie aux blesses de Septembre. Deuxième édition. London, 1863. 8vo.

—Cobden-Delane Controversy. Opinions of the Liberal Press on the Correspondence between Mr. Cobden ... and Mr. Delane, etc. Manchester, 1864. 8vo.

8138. cc.

—In Memoriam. Richard Cobden, his Life and Times. London, [1865]. 8vo.

10817. cc.

—Cobden’s Nederidge Navolgers in Indië: een beschamend woord voor alle bestrijders der liberale Koloniale politiek. (Overgedrukt uit het “Dagblad van Zuidholland en’s Gravenhage” van 8–11 Augustus, 1865.) ’sGravenhage, 1865. 8vo.

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—Richard Cobden: Sein Leben und sein Wirken. Von einem Freihändler und Friedensfreunde. Buremen, Norden [printed], 1869. 8vo.

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—Richard Cobden, the Friend of the People. The story of his life told for popular reading. London, [1877?]. 8vo.

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Cooke (Frances E.). An English Hero; the story of Richard Cobden, written for young people. Pp. 130. Sonnenschein & Co.: London, 1886. 8vo.

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Day, G. G. Cobden’s Contradictions. Extracted from Mr. G. G. Day’s Letter to the Morning Herald of March 27, 1850. [London, 1850.] S. sh. fol.

806. k. 15. (27.)

Denman (Hon. J.). The pressing necessity for increased docks and basins at Portsmouth, with some observations on Mr. Cobden’s “Three Panics,” etc. 1862. 8vo.

8806. c.

—1863. 8vo.

8806. c.

Dino Carina ( ). Riccardo Cobden. (Elogio.) Firenze, 1865. 12mo.

10817. aa. 15.

Dunckley (H.). Richard Cobden and the Jubilee of Free Trade, etc. By H. Dunckley, P. Leroy-Beaulieu, T. Barth, L. Courtney, C. P. Villiers. With preface by R. Gowing. Pp. 246. T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1896. 8vo.

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Dyer (George H.). Richard Cobden. Pp. 16. Dyer Bros.: London, [1882]. 16mo. One of the “Penny Popular Biographies.”

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—Six Men of the People, etc. Richard Cobden ... By G. H. Dyer. Dyer Bros.: London, [1882]. 8vo.

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E. (F. M.). Richard Cobden at Home. By F. M. E[dge?]. London, Manchester [printed], [1868]. 8vo.

10817. aaa. 41. (3.)

Ellis, W. A Few Questions on Secular Education—What it is, and what it ought to be; with an attempt to answer them. preceded by an Appeal to Richard Cobden, Esq., and the members of the late Anti-Corn Law League. By the Author of “The Outlines of Social Economy” [W. Ellis]. London, 1848. 8vo.

8305. e. 82.

Garnier (C. J.). Richard Cobden, les ligueurs, at la Ligue; precis de l’histoire de la dernière révolution économique et financière en Angleterre. Paris, 1846. 12mo.

1391. a. 32.

Gladstone (Right Hon. W. E.). Alarming results of the non-reciprocity system of Free Trade promoted by Messrs. Gladstone, Cobden, Bright, and their supporters. Fourth edition. London, [1865]. S. sh. fol.

1880. d. 1. (67.)

Gowing (Richard). Richard Cobden. Pp. 128. 1885. “World’s Workers,” 1885, etc. 8vo.

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Grandguillot, A. Pamphlets Nationaux. No. 1. Les Joujoux de M. Cobden. Par A. Grandguillot. Paris, [1868, etc.]. 8vo.

8245. ff. 3.

Hall (A. Hall). The Land the Agricultural Population. [Being letters of A. H. Hall, W. T. White, and others, in reply to two speeches delivered at Rochdale in November, 1863, by Richard Cobden and John Bright. Reprinted from the West Sussex Gazette.] Arundel, 1864. 8vo.

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Hobart (Vere Henry). The Mission of Richard Cobden. ... Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. London, [1867]. 8vo.

8139. aa.

Holdfast (Harry) pseud. A short letter to Mr. Cobden in reply to his long speech at Manchester from his quondam admirer, Harry Holdfast. London, 1849. 8vo.

8138. d.

Holtzendorff (F. von). Richard Cobden ... von F. von Holtzendorff. Virchow (R.) and Holtzendorff-Vietmansdorf (F. v.) Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschaftlicher Vorträge, herausgeben von R. v. und F. v. Holtzendorff. Berlin, 1866, etc. 8vo. Series I. Heft. 17.

Kretzschmar (Auguste). Richard Cobden, der Apostel der Handelsfreiheit und die jüngste staatsökonomische Revolution in Gross-britannien. Nach der besten englischen und französischen Quellen. Grimma, 1846. 12mo.

8245. a. 69. (2).

Lammer Moor. Bowring, Cobden, and China, etc. A Memoir by Lammer Moor. Pp. 32. J. Menzies, Edinburgh, 1857. 8vo.

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Levi (L.). On Richard Cobden, An introductory lecture, delivered in King’s College, London, etc. London, 1865. 8vo.

8205. bb. 10.

Lindsay (W. S.). Remarks on the law of partnership and limited liability. By W. S. Lindsay and Richard Cobden. London, 1856. 8vo.

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London. iii. Financial Reform Union. Papers on Taxation, etc. No. 3. A Budget for 1869, based upon Mr. Cobden’s “National Budget,” proposed in 1849. Pp. 7. [London], 1868. 8vo.

C. T. 274 (8).

MacGilchrist (John), of London. Richard Cobden, the apostle of Free Trade, his political career and public services. A biography. [Illustrated with photographs.] Pp. 294. Lockwood & Co.: London, 1865. 8vo.

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Maitre (C.). Richard Cobden, ou l’Esprit Anglais contre l’Ésprit Français à propos de la Liberté des Échanges. Paris. 1846. 16mo.

1391. a. 35. (2.)

Mallet (Sir L.). The Political Opinions of Richard Cobden. Pp. viii.–64. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1869. 8vo.

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Marsham (J. C.). How Wars arise in India. Observations on Mr. Cobden’s Pamphlet entitled “The Origin of the Burmese War.” 1853. 8vo.

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Maydwell (Isaac). Maydwell’s Analysis of Cobden’s Addresses, with remarks on Mr. Greg’s speech at the Great League Meeting at Manchester. London, 1843. 8vo.

1391. g. 47.

Morley (John), Right Hon. The Life of Richard Cobden. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall: London, 1881. 8vo.

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— — Abridged edition. 1902. 8vo.

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Ouvry (Henry Aimè). Stein and his reforms in Prussia, with reference to the land question in England, and an appendix containing the views of Richard Cobden, and J. s. Mill’s advice to Land Reformers. London, 1873. 8vo.

8277. b. 66.

Pope (J. B.). The Curse of Cobden, or John Bull v. John Bright. [A pamphlet upon Free Trade.] W. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh and London, 1885. 8vo.

8228. b. 37.

Protin (P. O.). Les Économistes Apprécies, ou Nécessité de la Protection ... Cobden, Michel Chevalier—Carey—Du Mesnil—Marigny, etc. 2 pt. Paris, 1862–63. 12mo.

8206. aaa. 31.

Reybaud (M. K. L.). Economistes modernes ... Richard Cobden, M. F. Bastiat, M. M. Chevalier, M. J. S. Mill, M. L. Faucher, M. P. Rossi, etc. Paris, 1862. 8vo.

8206. f. 17.

Richards (A. B.). Cobden and his pamphlet [1793 and 1853] considered, in a letter to Richard Cobden, etc. 1853. 8vo.

8138. df.

Ritchie (j. E.). The Life of Richard Cobden [by J. E. Ritchie]: with a faithful likeness from a photograph by Eastham, etc. London, [1865]. Fol.

10816. i.

Robkin. “Robkin and Blight” [i.e., Richard Cobden and John Bright]. What unfair trade is doing for us. [Signed “Pastor Agricola.”] Pp. 23. H. T. Cooke & Son: Warwick, 1885. 8vo.

8139. b. 29. (7.)

Rogers (James Edwin Thorold). Cobden and Modern Political Opinion. Essays on certain political topics. London, 1873. 8vo.

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Russia—Appendix, History and Politics. Russia. In answer to a Manchester Manufacturer [Richard Cobden]. London, 1837. 8vo.

8026. g. 33. (1.)

Salis Schwabe (J.), Madame. Richard Cobden, Notes sur ses voyages, correspondences et souvenirs, recueillés par Mme. Salis Schwabe, avec une préface de M. G. Molinari. Pp. xvi.–384. Paris, 1879. 8vo.

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—Reminiscences of Richard Cobden, compiled by Mrs. Salis Schwabe. With a Preface by Lord Farrer. Pp. xvi.–340. T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1895. 8vo.

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Scott (A. T.). In Memoriam. The Life and Labours of Richard Cobden ... to which is appended an account of the Funeral. London, 1865. 8vo.

10825. bb. 33. (6.)

Sibree (James). Richard Cobden: Philanthropist and Statesman. Hull: London, [1865]. 16mo.

10817. a. 49.

Simonson (F.). Richard Cobden und die antikarnzolliga, sowie ihre Bedentung für die wirthschaftlichen Verhältnisse des Deutschen Reiches. Pp. 64. Berlin, 1863. 8vo.

8229. de. 32. (11.)

Urquhart (D.). Answer to Mr. Cobden on the assimilation of war and peace [as proposed by Mr. Cobden in a letter to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce]. Also analysis of the correspondence [of the English Government] with the United States [May, June, 1861], showing the Declaration of Paris to have been violated by England and France. Pp. 64. Hardwick: London, 1862. 8vo.

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Walcker (Carl). Richard Cobden’s Volkswirthschaftliche und politische Ausichten, auf Grund aelteren und neuerer Quallen systematisch dargestellt. Pp. vi.–91. Hamburg, Leipzig [printed], 1885. 8vo.

8229. d. 35. (7.)

Warminster Fair Trade and Home Labour Defence League. The Curse of Cobden; what it means. An address to those with brains. Issued by the Warminster Fair Trade and Home Labour Defence League. [Signed for the League by John W. Hull.] Pp. 8. Warminster, [1901.] 8vo.

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Watkin (Sir E. W.), Bart. Alderman Cobden, of Manchester. Letters and reminiscences of Richard Cobden, with portraits, illustrations, etc. L.P., pp. 218. Ward & Lock: London, [1891]. 4to.

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Woods (J. Crawford). In Memory of Richard Cobden, a sermon [on Isaiah x. 18, and Matt. xxv. 34, 35, 40] preached ... July 9, 1865. Adelaide, 1865. 8vo.

10816. bbb. 15. (3.)