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.
[New York, N.Y.] : London: printed: New-York, re-printed by Childs and Swaine. Sold by Berry and Rogers, New-York; the principal booksellers in Philadelphia; Thomas and Andrews, Boston; and W.P. Young, Charleston, South-Carolina, 1791.
8vo, 93, (2, ads) pp. Modern binding of quarter leather and marbled paper boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. Title page worn but complete, paper repair to corner of the second leaf (no loss of text), toning and occasional spotting, modern binding in fine, handsome condition.
§ First published in London earlier that year. Burke's defense of his conservative critique of the French Revolution, aimed at the "New Whigs" who supported it. He argues against radical, abstract rights, contrasting them with the "Old Whig" tradition of inherited liberties and gradual reform, asserting that the French revolutionaries destroyed true freedom for anarchy and despotism. ESTC W36417. Evans 23236. Item #126952
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