EDEN, WILLIAM. - Four Letters to the Earl of Carlisle, On certain Perversions of Political Reasoning; and on the Nature, Progress, and Effect of Party Spirit and of Parties. On the Present Circumstances of the War between Great Britain and... France and Spain. On the Publ
London 1779. First edition, 8vo, (ii), 163, (1) pp. Old stabholes throughout to the inner margin, occasional foxing. Recent half calf, marbled sides, black label. M.P. for Woodstock and one of the most expert speakers in the House on economics and law, Eden was an old schoolfriend of Carlisle’s. As part of a five man Commission they had both just returned from a trip to America to assess the deteriorating situation there when this was published. He went on to serve under Pitt as a negotiator and ambassador all over Europe during the troubled years of the French Revolution.
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