REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE; and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris by the right Honourable ...
Philadelpha: D. Humphreys for Young, Dobson, Carey and Rice, 1792. Second American edn. (after the one issued in NY the previous year). 8vo, pp. [iv], 5-256. Bound in modern diced calf with morocco label. Little toned and stained but a very good copy. PMM 239 for the London edition; Bristol B7946; Evans 24157; Todd 53gg. Item #48562
Burke supported the American Revolution and the quest for liberties it entailed, but he believed the French Revolution to be "one of the greatest calamities which has ever fallen upon mankind." He wrote this work to counter sympathy for the Revolution which prevailed in England at that time. Indeed, Mary Wollstonecraft answered this with her "Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790). as did Thomas Paine in his Rights of Man.
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