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271 - [REVOLUTION] BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in…
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[REVOLUTION] BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings of Certain Societies in London Relating to that Event. Third edition of this famous critique of the Revolution. A fine copy in contemporary binding. Paris and London, Laurent and Edward, undated. [c. 1790] 8vo, marbled brown calfskin, ribbed spine, panels decorated with small gilt ironwork, red leather title label, blind-stamped fillet framing the covers, gilt fillet on the edges, guilloché capitals, yellow edges. VIII – 536 and 8 pp. (table of contents). A stain along the front cover and, smaller, on the back cover; normal wear and tear; water stains in the margins of the first and last leaves; a few foxing spots. Third edition, ‘revised, corrected and expanded with a table of contents’. Bound following the table of contents: ‘Letter from Mr Burke to his translator’ (8 pp.). In this political essay, Edmund Burke (1729–1797), a Liberal Member of Parliament and one of the leading figures of the Whig Party, offers a critique of the French Revolution. His analysis, which proved accurate in the light of subsequent events, has ensured him a certain measure of posterity. From the library of Henri Joliet, bearing his bookplate with the monogram CBMHI and the motto ‘Think more than you speak’. On the inside front cover, a label indicating another provenance: ‘No. 59. Mr Thomas, parish priest of Mormant, Member of the National Assembly’. A fine copy.
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