Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 201
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BURKE, EDMUND. Reflections on the Revolution in France. 256 pages. 8vo, publisher's paper-backed boards, backstrip perished, stained, front cover detached; stain to the bottom corner affecting the first few signatures, minor foxing; uncut and partially unopened; early owner's signature on title. Philadelphia, 1792

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The second American edition, preceded by an edition published by Gaine the year prior. The most important critique of the French Revolution, it prompted Thomas Paine to write his influential Rights of Man. In America, Burke's work served as a rallying cry to the Federalist cause. Evans 24157.