[THE FRENCH REVOLUTION]. A sammelband of Dublin editions of works by Edmund Burke, Joseph Priestley, Rev. R. Nares, William Eden, and Charles-Francois Dumouriez, comprising:

BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. Dublin: for W. Watson and others, 1790. First or second Dublin edition. Todd 53aa. -- PRIESTLEY. Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France. Dublin: for J. Sheppard and others, 1791. First Dublin edition. -- BURKE. A letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; in answer to some objection to his book no French affairs. Dublin: for G. Burnet and others, 1791. First Dublin edition. Todd 54i. -- NARES. Principles of Government deduces from Reason, supported by English Experience, and opposed to French Errors. Dublin: for B. Dornin, 1793. First Dublin Edition. -- [EDEN]. Some Remarks on the Apparent Circumstances of the War in the fourth week of October, 1795. Dublin: J. Chambers, 1795. First Dublin Edition. -- DUMOURIEZ. A Speculative Sketch of Europe. Dublin: for J. Moore and J. Milliken, 1798.

Together 6 works in one volume, 8vo (206 x 199 mm). 19th-century half calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: John Ball (signatures with contemporary dates on the title-pages of the second, third and fourth works); Mary and James Donahoe (signatures on final leaf).

Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, an intellectual attack against the French Revolution, in which he argues that the Revolution will fail, due to its abstract foundation, drew several notable responses. In addition to the responses of Priestley, Nares, and Dumouriez, bound here, Burke's work drew replies from Thomas Paine (The Rights of Man, 1791) and Mary Wollstonecraft (Vindication of the Rights of Man, 1790).

Property from the Collection of Edward A. Quattrocchi