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Two letters addressed to a member of the present parliament, on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. By the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.
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BURKE, Edmund (1730--1797)
Two letters addressed to a member of the present parliament, on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. By the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.
London (Place), printed for F. and C. Rivington,, 1796.
[4], 188 p. ; 20.3 cm. (8°)
First published by J. Owen as Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace, 1796. Eleven further editions under the title as above were issued in the same year with the edition statements appearing on the half-title, not present in the Soane copy. See William B. Todd, A bibliography of Edmund Burke (London 1964), 66a-m and ESTC entries.
Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting the half-title. Bound first with Constitution de la république Française, précédée de la déclaration des droits de l'homme, 1793 (q.v.), T. Bowdler, Tentamen medicum, 1776 (q.v.), and his A postcript to the letters written in France, in 1814, 1815 (q.v.). Leaf I3 (pp. 61-2) was omitted from the binding and is shelved in a box of pamphlets as item PC 118.(20c).
Binding C19th half calf, gilt double-rule spine, black spine-label lettered 'Burke's Two Letters &c.', later numbered '20' in a series of pamphlet volumes. Edward Lawrence was paid 1s. 6d. for half binding, 15 March 1802. (Spiers Box).
Reference Number 4060
Additional Names Lawrence, Edward; First Coalition, War of the (1792--1797)
Two letters addressed to a member of the present parliament, on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. By the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.
London (Place), printed for F. and C. Rivington,, 1796.
[4], 188 p. ; 20.3 cm. (8°)
First published by J. Owen as Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace, 1796. Eleven further editions under the title as above were issued in the same year with the edition statements appearing on the half-title, not present in the Soane copy. See William B. Todd, A bibliography of Edmund Burke (London 1964), 66a-m and ESTC entries.
Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting the half-title. Bound first with Constitution de la république Française, précédée de la déclaration des droits de l'homme, 1793 (q.v.), T. Bowdler, Tentamen medicum, 1776 (q.v.), and his A postcript to the letters written in France, in 1814, 1815 (q.v.). Leaf I3 (pp. 61-2) was omitted from the binding and is shelved in a box of pamphlets as item PC 118.(20c).
Binding C19th half calf, gilt double-rule spine, black spine-label lettered 'Burke's Two Letters &c.', later numbered '20' in a series of pamphlet volumes. Edward Lawrence was paid 1s. 6d. for half binding, 15 March 1802. (Spiers Box).
Reference Number 4060
Additional Names Lawrence, Edward; First Coalition, War of the (1792--1797)