Description
The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, A New Edition, published in London in 1852.
Octavo, [8 volumes]. Full brick red morocco, gilt-ruled border on front and back covers, five raised bands with decorative compartments. Title in gilt over red and green leather spine labels. Marbled edges with matching marbled endpapers. Blind stamped turn-ins. All eight volumes with strong text blocks, minimal internal wear. Light rubbing at edges of all volumes. Volume V with small chip out of spine and thin scrape to front cover. Frontispiece portrait and tissue guard in Volume I. A vibrant example of an important collection of writing.
A Whig politician, Edmund Burke (1729-1797) served as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons from 1766 to 1794. Burke led the “Old Whigs,” the conservative side of the party that greatly opposed the French Revolution. His Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790, became one of his best-known works. Today, Edmund Burke is remembered as the philosophical founder of conservatism.
