Christie, Thomas [1761 - 1796] - LETTERS On The REVOLUTION In FRANCE, And on the New Constitution Established by the National Assembly:; Occasioned by the Publications of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M. P. and Alexander de Calonne, Late Minister of State. To Which is Added, An Appendix, Containing Original Papers and Authentic Documents Relative to the Affairs of France, Addressed to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M. P. by Thomas Christie. Part I.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church - Yard, 1791. 1st Edition. Modern brown quarter-leather binding with marbled boards, executed in a period style. [iii] - viii, 276, 195, [1 (blank)] pp. Lacking charts. 8vo. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG (ex-lib, with the occasional stamp/title leaf with restored corners/the odd smudge, dust soiling/age-toning). Thomas Christie was a Scottish radical political writer during the late 18th century. He, along with J. Johnson, were the original two founders of the important liberal journal, the Analytical Review, which became the mouthpiece for reformers during the 1790s. [Wiki] Regarding this particular work, it described Christie's impressions of Paris and provided a contrast to Burke's depiction of it as lawless and violent. Part II was never published.