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[BURKE, Edmund] A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 8°, half title (half title lightly spotted and browned, a few light spots), contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Todd 5A.
Edmund BURKE. Reflections in the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in certain Societies in London relative to that event, London: J. Dodsley, 1790. 8° (a few light spots), contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, gilt inner dentelles (head of spine slightly chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Orlando Bridgeman, inscription on verso of endpaper; Weston Library, bookplate. FIRST EDITION. PMM 239: "It is strange that Burke, who for all his influence enjoyed less experience of the practical business of government than most of his acquaintances, should have been written, in defence of an existing régime and against a liberating revolution, one of the most brilliant of all polemics"; Todd 53a. (2)
Edmund BURKE. Reflections in the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in certain Societies in London relative to that event, London: J. Dodsley, 1790. 8° (a few light spots), contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, gilt inner dentelles (head of spine slightly chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Orlando Bridgeman, inscription on verso of endpaper; Weston Library, bookplate. FIRST EDITION. PMM 239: "It is strange that Burke, who for all his influence enjoyed less experience of the practical business of government than most of his acquaintances, should have been written, in defence of an existing régime and against a liberating revolution, one of the most brilliant of all polemics"; Todd 53a. (2)