Author: BURKE, EDMUND
Title: Reflections on the French Revolution and Other Essays (First Everyman's Library Edition, el #460)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1910]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition, 1910. English philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an influential shaper of public opinion. His reflections on the French Revolution are described as a "denunciation" by Donald Armstrong Ross. Also with other related writings by Mr. Burke. Includes an introduction by A. J. Grieve. An entry in Everyman's Library Essays and Belles Lettres series, edited by Ernest Rhys. EL #460. --- In flatback binding style 1, full orange ribbed cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Lacks the dust jacket. --- With creases to front cover, prior owners' penciled signatures to front free endpaper and a small tear to cloth at head of spine, else an intact, clean copy. A weakened front hinge has been carefully repaired on this item.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xvi, 361 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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