The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1866.
Limited Edition, numbered 21 of one hundred copies. Tall Octavo, original embossed maroon cloth, gilt lettering and illustration to spines, original endpapers. With vintage bookplates to front inside cover of each volume of I. Ingersoll Bowditch, the son of Nathaniel Bowditch, author of “American Practical Navigator.” Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party, and who is best remembered for his support of the American Revolutionaries and for his opposition to the French Revolution. Very Good with some light foxing to pages, spine ends with modest wear, Volume XII with 2 cm tear to lower spine end, only light surface wear and soiling.
Price: $750.00