BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). 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. London: J. Dodsley, 1790.
BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). 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. London: J. Dodsley, 1790. 8 o (224 x 135 mm). (Very minor pale dampstaining to upper margins at beginning, very minor worming to extreme margins.) Original blue-grey wrappers, uncut (some chips to spine); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: purchased from Inman's Book Shop, New York, 16 May 1969. Second edition, first impression of "one of the most brilliant of polemics" ( PMM ). Burke continued to revise his masterpiece after the book had gone to press, causing Paine to remark: "Mr. Burke was much at a loss how to go on; that he had revised some of the sheets, six, seven, and one nine times!" Boswell relates Johnson's experience with the peculiarities of Burke: "When Johnson was ill and unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr Burke having been mentioned, said: 'That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now, it would kill me.'" The result of Burke's exasperating editorial tendencies is the complicated number of editions and impressions of his Reflections recorded by Todd. This second edition, first impression, was according to Todd, presumably issued on November 2nd, one day after the first. Due to the number of different pressmen used, the subsequent editions were also quick in coming; within a fortnight the third edition was already in print. The present copy has the following points of the second edition, first impression: the title is in state (a), with the "M" in the imprint immediately below the first "D" of "Dodsley"; [A]2 is in state (b), with the printer's device pointing up; and 2A2 is in state (y), with the "*" press figure. Leaves B8, E2, F6, H2 and H3 are uncancelled. Of this edition and impression Todd states: "Though in part identical with a [first edition], this may be properly called a new edition, since it is substantially of a new setting." Grolier English 63; PMM 239; Todd 53b. RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). 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. London: J. Dodsley, 1790.
BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). 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. London: J. Dodsley, 1790. 8 o (224 x 135 mm). (Very minor pale dampstaining to upper margins at beginning, very minor worming to extreme margins.) Original blue-grey wrappers, uncut (some chips to spine); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: purchased from Inman's Book Shop, New York, 16 May 1969. Second edition, first impression of "one of the most brilliant of polemics" ( PMM ). Burke continued to revise his masterpiece after the book had gone to press, causing Paine to remark: "Mr. Burke was much at a loss how to go on; that he had revised some of the sheets, six, seven, and one nine times!" Boswell relates Johnson's experience with the peculiarities of Burke: "When Johnson was ill and unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr Burke having been mentioned, said: 'That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now, it would kill me.'" The result of Burke's exasperating editorial tendencies is the complicated number of editions and impressions of his Reflections recorded by Todd. This second edition, first impression, was according to Todd, presumably issued on November 2nd, one day after the first. Due to the number of different pressmen used, the subsequent editions were also quick in coming; within a fortnight the third edition was already in print. The present copy has the following points of the second edition, first impression: the title is in state (a), with the "M" in the imprint immediately below the first "D" of "Dodsley"; [A]2 is in state (b), with the printer's device pointing up; and 2A2 is in state (y), with the "*" press figure. Leaves B8, E2, F6, H2 and H3 are uncancelled. Of this edition and impression Todd states: "Though in part identical with a [first edition], this may be properly called a new edition, since it is substantially of a new setting." Grolier English 63; PMM 239; Todd 53b. RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
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