OCLC: 946162345 records this edition but without the two additional works bound in. Internally, contemporary note about contents of the volume a child's pencil scribbling at pp170-3. Boards rubbed front board detached but present. Approximately half of title label chipped away. Full brown leather, gilt title at brown leather spine label.

Also bound in, 'An Appeal From the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution'. Two other works bound in: 'A Letter To A Member Of The National Assembly In Answer To Some Objections To His Book On French Affairs'. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. The first printing of the second edition, with the following attributes: title-page with the M (in the date slightly to the right of the 'D' in the publisher's name, Dodsley, just above the preface: -iv with floral printer's ornament on iv 1-356pp, line 23, shows the misprint: 'ascertainmennt' and a dagger printer's mark at the bottom of p194. Burke's position appealed to the landed class' fear of mob rule it supported the view that the Revolution would destroy French society. This work engendered a strong response, including Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man'. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Irish political thinker's famous attack on the French Revolution. In a Letter Intended to have been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event.

Edmund burke on the french revolution