Letters Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs. Collected and Aranged By Mattew Arnold. With a Preface
by Burke, Edmund
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is oft called "the father of modern political conservatism." Born in Ireland by a Catholic mother and a Protestant father, he kept himself in both camps; noted for his support for Catholic emancipation and doubts about the American and French revolutions. At the time of this book, Matthew Arnold has abandoned poetry and assumed a critical stance toward "modern" culture. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First Edition. An uncommon book. Blue cloth binding, ruled; with titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; xiii, 439 pages (last signature unopened]; with a two-page catalog in the rear. Tiny English bookseller label on the front paste-down. There is some light spotting, mainly to the endpapers and fore-edge. The spine has darkened, but the gilt remains bright and perfectly readable; the tips and the head and foot of the spine have very light rubbing. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0066672
- Title
- Letters Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs. Collected and Aranged By Mattew Arnold. With a Preface
- Author
- Burke, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1881
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish History & Politics;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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