GODWIN, WILLIAM An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness . London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1793. First edition. Two volumes, 19th century three-quarters morocco, marbled sides. 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (27 x 21 cm); xiii, [21], 378 pp.; [26], 380-895, [3] pp. Bindings worn but internally a generally clean set, with the signature of Robert H. Morris on the title pages (together with the Bar Association stamp). Lacking half-titles, but with the leaf to the binder at the end of the second volume. Started as the French Revolution reached its first apogee in the latter half of 1790, Godwin completed the work in January of 1793, after the execution of Louis XVI. His work was a crucial one in the debates that raged in England around this time, on which this work had a very considerable influence. Godwin's conclusions were fundamentally anarchic; in his attempt to discover which form of government was most conducive to human progress and the attainment of political justice, he reached the extreme conclusion that even true representative democracy was a form of tyranny or "usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind." PMM 243; Rothschild 1016. C The New York City Bar Association
GODWIN, WILLIAM An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness . London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1793. First edition. Two volumes, 19th century three-quarters morocco, marbled sides. 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (27 x 21 cm); xiii, [21], 378 pp.; [26], 380-895, [3] pp. Bindings worn but internally a generally clean set, with the signature of Robert H. Morris on the title pages (together with the Bar Association stamp). Lacking half-titles, but with the leaf to the binder at the end of the second volume. Started as the French Revolution reached its first apogee in the latter half of 1790, Godwin completed the work in January of 1793, after the execution of Louis XVI. His work was a crucial one in the debates that raged in England around this time, on which this work had a very considerable influence. Godwin's conclusions were fundamentally anarchic; in his attempt to discover which form of government was most conducive to human progress and the attainment of political justice, he reached the extreme conclusion that even true representative democracy was a form of tyranny or "usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind." PMM 243; Rothschild 1016. C The New York City Bar Association
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