Paine Rights of Man w/ Priestley Letters to Burke
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Author: Paine, Thomas and Joseph Priestley
Title: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution [bound with] Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Place Published: Dublin
Publisher:Printed by P. Byrne/Printed for J. Sheppard [et al.]
Date Published: 1791
Description: 162; [12], 123 pp. (8vo) 18th-century marbled boards, morocco lettering piece.Two important works on the French Revolution by Thomas Paine and Joseph Priestley. First edition of the second work by Priestley. Armorial bookplate. Lot also includes a New York reprint of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in modern wrappers, fair condition. Early editions of Edmund Burke's iconic conservative attack on the French Revolution offered together with Thomas Paine's legendary rebuttal 'The Rights of Man'. Paine's response was one of the first to effectively puncture Burke's position and its publication caused a furor in England; Paine was tried in absentia, and convicted of seditious libel against the Crown, but was unavailable for hanging, being in France and never returning to England.
Condition Report: Moderate rubbing to binding, hinges nearly loose, slight soiling to title pages; still very good.
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Heading:
Author: Paine, Thomas and Joseph Priestley
Title: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution [bound with] Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Place Published: Dublin
Publisher:Printed by P. Byrne/Printed for J. Sheppard [et al.]
Date Published: 1791
Description: 162; [12], 123 pp. (8vo) 18th-century marbled boards, morocco lettering piece.Two important works on the French Revolution by Thomas Paine and Joseph Priestley. First edition of the second work by Priestley. Armorial bookplate. Lot also includes a New York reprint of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in modern wrappers, fair condition. Early editions of Edmund Burke's iconic conservative attack on the French Revolution offered together with Thomas Paine's legendary rebuttal 'The Rights of Man'. Paine's response was one of the first to effectively puncture Burke's position and its publication caused a furor in England; Paine was tried in absentia, and convicted of seditious libel against the Crown, but was unavailable for hanging, being in France and never returning to England.
Condition Report: Moderate rubbing to binding, hinges nearly loose, slight soiling to title pages; still very good.
