1822 A Sketch of Old England

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding

The first UK edition of this work. 

Smartly rebound in quarter calf with red cloth boards. 

Though published here anonymously under "A New England Man", these writings are credited to James Kirke Paulding, an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. 

Comprising twenty-three "letters", this work was one of several responses from American writers to the unfavourable accounts given by English writers on their visits to the new nation. This reply retorts satirical criticisms of English customs and social behaviours and is one of five works Paulding wrote expressing his anti-British views.