1st Edition

'A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words' by Charles Pigott A Facsimile of the 1795 Edition

Edited By Robert Rix Copyright 2004
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

Considering the fact that Charles Pigott's satirical A Political Dictionary (1795) is regularly quoted and referred to in analyses of late eighteenth-century radical culture, it is surprising that until now it has remained unavailable to readers outside of a few specialised research libraries. Until his death on the 24th of June 1794, Pigott was one of England's most prolific satirists in the... Read more
Contents: Editions of Pigott's works cited; Introduction; A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words; Annotations; Cast of characters; Bibliography.

Biography

Robert Rix