BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). Reflections on the Revolution in France . London: J. Dodsley, 1790. [ Bound with :] PIGOTT, Charles (d.1794). Strictures on the new political tenets of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke . London: James Ridgway, 1791. [ and :] 2 other 18th-century pamphlets. First edition, first impression of Burke’s famous condemnation of the French Revolution. In 1789, a common perception of the French Revolution was that a freedom and potential stability might ensue similar to that which had been achieved by the American Revolution. Burke was swift to point out the essential differences in the two movements: the American colonists had fought to preserve basic English liberties and institutions; the French revolutionaries wished not only to eradicate the monarchy but to obliterate the most basic traditions. '[A]s the Terror grew, Burke seemed almost to be a prophet. In the eternal debate between the ideal and the practical, the latter had never had a more powerful or moving advocate, nor one whose own ideals were higher.' ESTC T46573 & T122893; PMM 239; Todd 53a. 4 works in one volume, octavo (225 x 140mm). (A few leaves lightly stained.) Modern quarter leather over contemporary boards, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed).
BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797). Reflections on the Revolution in France . London: J. Dodsley, 1790. [ Bound with :] PIGOTT, Charles (d.1794). Strictures on the new political tenets of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke . London: James Ridgway, 1791. [ and :] 2 other 18th-century pamphlets. First edition, first impression of Burke’s famous condemnation of the French Revolution. In 1789, a common perception of the French Revolution was that a freedom and potential stability might ensue similar to that which had been achieved by the American Revolution. Burke was swift to point out the essential differences in the two movements: the American colonists had fought to preserve basic English liberties and institutions; the French revolutionaries wished not only to eradicate the monarchy but to obliterate the most basic traditions. '[A]s the Terror grew, Burke seemed almost to be a prophet. In the eternal debate between the ideal and the practical, the latter had never had a more powerful or moving advocate, nor one whose own ideals were higher.' ESTC T46573 & T122893; PMM 239; Todd 53a. 4 works in one volume, octavo (225 x 140mm). (A few leaves lightly stained.) Modern quarter leather over contemporary boards, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed).
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