![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.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14301_0118_000(burke_edmund_reflections_on_the_revolution_in_france_london_j_dodsley030726).jpg?w=1)
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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).
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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