{"product_id":"the-works-of-the-right-honourable-edmund-burke-collected-in-three-volumes-first-collected-edition","title":"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Collected in Three Volumes (First Collected Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBURKE, Edmund.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1792. 3 vols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e4to. Rebound in later quarter brown calf and marbled boards by L.J. Cullen Bookbinders. Spines gilt with titling on darker brown panels. Upper edges gilt. Vol. I: [vi], 580 pp.; Vol. II: [iv], 655 pp.; Vol. III: [iv], 602 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst collected edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Todd 79a (1–3); Lowndes 316. Ex-libris Victor Crittenden OAM, bookplate to front pastedown of each volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBurke never himself assembled a collection of his writings. It was only when the extraordinary and unexampled demand for the \u003cem\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003c\/em\u003e had made his celebrity as a writer impossible to deny that his friends prevailed upon him to permit a regular edition of his works, and accordingly these three quartos appeared in May 1792, printed for Dodsley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis edition presents the only volumes of Burke's collected works to appear in his lifetime and they represent the most significant single assembly of one of the great minds of eighteenth-century political thought. The range is formidable: the first volume contains the \u003cem\u003ePhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e (1757), the foundational text of British aesthetic theory and one of the seedbeds of Romanticism, alongside the early \u003cem\u003eVindication of Natural Society\u003c\/em\u003e; the second gathers the great speeches and letters on America, including the \u003cem\u003eSpeech on American Taxation\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eThoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e; the third contains the \u003cem\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003c\/em\u003e (1790), the most influential work of political conservatism in the English language, written in direct response to the events in Paris and addressed to a young Frenchman who had asked for Burke's thoughts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMacaulay called Burke the greatest orator, ancient or modern, and in aptitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to all. These three volumes are the foundation on which that judgement rests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe volumes carry the bookplate of Victor Crittenden OAM (1925–2014), one of Australia's most distinguished bibliographers and book collectors, foundation librarian of what became the University of Canberra, publisher of Mulini Press, recipient of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Special Award in 2007, and Order of Australia medallist in 2010 for his services to Australian bibliography and colonial literary history. His library dispersal adds a layer of significant Australian scholarly provenance to these volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Binding fine with a hint of rubbing to corners. Contents near fine with some mild toning throughout and a spot here and there. In remarkably good condition for the age of the contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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