BURKE, Edmund.
Reflections on the Revolution in France,
Reflections on the Revolution in France,
and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris.
Stock Code 115336
London, Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790.
early edition printed the same year as the first
An early edition, printed the same year as the first, of Burke's spirited defence of moderation in the face of the French Revolution and the overthrow of the ancien régime.'One of the most brilliant of all polemics...' (PMM).
'The circumstances are what render every civil adn political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind' (p.8)
Second edition (i.e. second reprint labelled 'Second Edition'), fourth impression; 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm); variant with p.15 press figure 'o', and p.28 with none, and p.340 '6, title with clipped signature to upper margin with loss not affecting text, offsetting to endpapers, occasional slight spotting; contemporary tree calf, rebacked, a little rubbed; iv, 356pp.
ESTC T46575; Todd 53e; cf.PMM 239.
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