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London : Macmillan and Co, 1897. 1st edition reprint. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 216, [2] p.; 19 cm. Notes: Reprinted with corrections. First edition, 1879. With a final advertisement leaf.Subjects: Burke, Edmund 1729-1797. Burke, Edmund 1729/30-1797 politician and author. Biographies.

London: Printed for J. Owen, 1794. [4], 95pp, [1]. With a half-title. Disbound. First two leaves detached, some spotting, single inked highlight to text. The first edition of a polemic by William Augustus Miles (1753/4-1817), addressed to former prime minister Augustus Henry FitzRoy, third Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), defending the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) from the charges made against him by Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797) on 17th March in the House of Commons. Lafayette, his influence upon the revolution in France having waned, had been detained as a state prisoner. A motion calling for the British government to intercede was brought before Parliament. Burke, vehemently opposed to the release, stating that Lafayette's record throughout the Revolution had been deplorable, describing him as the 'principal author...of all the misfortunes that had befallen France'. ESTC T96871.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. Owen, 1794. [2], 95pp, [1]. Without half-title. Disbound. Ink library stamps of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to title page and p.53, lightly browned, occasional chipping to margins. The first edition of a polemic by William Augustus Miles (1753/4-1817), addressed to former prime minister Augustus Henry FitzRoy, third Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), defending the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) from the charges made against him by Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797) on 17th March in the House of Commons. Lafayette, his influence upon the revolution in France having waned, had been detained as a state prisoner. A motion calling for the British government to intercede was brought before Parliament. Burke, vehemently opposed to the release, stating that Lafayette's record throughout the Revolution had been deplorable, describing him as the 'principal author...of all the misfortunes that had befallen France'. ESTC T96871.. First edition. 8vo.

A Paris: Pougin et al., [1796]. [4], 212pp. With a half-title. Disbound. Ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to head of title page and p.103, very occasional slight chipping margins. The first edition in French of Irish statesman Edmund Burke's (1729/30-1797) polemic in favour of pursuing peaceful negotiations and a cessation of hostilities between Britain and France (Anglo-French War 1793-1802). Burke emphasises the extent to which the interests of Britain and the Continent coincide, whilst warning against appeasement on the part of the British government and the potential denigration of the newly founded French Republic. . First edition in French. 8vo.

A Paris: [s.n.], 1791. xxiv, 93pp, [1]. Disbound. With a half-title. Very occasional chipping to margins, ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to head of title page and p.73. A French translation of two letters by Irish born politician and philosopher Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797) to a member of the National Assembly, predominantly relating to Joseph Priestley's (1733-1804) critical response to his Reflections on the Revolution in France (London, 1790). The Reflections became the definitive polemical defence of the eighteenth-century British polity against revolutionary politics. It found an immediately receptive conservative audience at home and abroad, and was reissued many times before the end of the eighteenth-century, by which time developments in France had made Burke’s work seem remarkably prophetical. . 8vo.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1790. [4], 124pp, [4]. With a half-title. Without two of the final advertisement leaves. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards, later rebacked in drab paper. Boards worn and marked. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, naive paper repairs to foot of leaves B3-6 - clipping text, without loss of sense, occasional light dust-soiling. The sole edition of pamphleteer and stockjobber Ralph Broome's (1742-1805) anonymous vehement verse defence of Warren Hastings (1732-1818) issued during the latter's lengthy court proceedings following his impeachment on charges, levelled by Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797), of alleged maladministration and unlawful execution during his tenure as Governor-General of Bengal. ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles (Birmingham, BL, King's College London, NLS, and Wales); and a further four in North America (Cornell, NYPL, Toronto, and Yale). ESTC T149067.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1782. [2], iv, 132pp, [1] With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Later half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Armorial bookplate of Robinson of Rokeby to FEP. The first London edition of a rare and important account of the 1781 insurrection in Benares, written by the then Governor of Bengal, Warren Hastings (1732-1818). This event and others during Hastings's administration of the region led to a seven year impeachment trial for alleged maladministration following his return to Britain, prosecuted chiefly by Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797). It became an cornerstone in the debate about the transaction of rule in India by the East India Company. The insurrection arose from the Raja of Benares failing to pay a subsidy to the East India Company. Refusal to pay led Hastings to order the arrest of the Raja, only for the arresting sepoys to be killed by the Raja's personal guards. In response Hastings organised military measures to crush… Read More

London: Printed at the Minerva Press, and sold by William Lane, 1793. [4], 131pp, [1]. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate. ESTC T13054. [Bound with:] BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the revolution in france, and on the proceedings in certain societies in london relative to that event... London. Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. iv, 356pp. ESTC N48331. Todd 53c. Todd’s second edition, second impression. Press figures: p.4 - none; p.116 - I; p.171 - x; p.354 - a. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities worn and marked, upper board detached, lower board held by cords only, without secondary lettering-piece. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition, printed at the Minerva Press, of Richard Twiss's (1747-1821) vivid account of Revolutionary France. A talented wordsmith, with eclectic interests and an aptitude for reportage, Twiss provides vivid accounts of atrocities notably the Storming of… Read More

[London]: [C. Bretherton], [1782-84] 31 etchings on thick laid paper, each sheet 170 x 245 mm, bound together in early powder blue limp paper boards. Extremities rubbed, marked, and damp-stained, faint inked inscription to upper board. Etchings damp-stained, all with contemporary marginal inked inscriptions identifying the subject. A collection of 31 early satirical etchings by caricaturist James Sayers (1748-1823), depicting contemporary political figures, including Burke, Fox, and Effingham. Unlike the majority of contemporary caricaturists, Sayers did not take the side of the opposition against the governments of the day, instead devoting his efforts to supporting Pitt and mercilessly lampooning the Fox-North coalition and condemning the French Revolution. A particular favourite subject for his keen satirical eye was Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797). In this collection, Burke is depicted with an awkward gait, thrusting forward a bill, under which is the unflattering caption: 'For Rhetoric he could… Read More