Mr Burkes Speech On The Motion Made For Papers Relative To The Directions For Charging The Nabob Of

by Edmund Burke

$225 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: J. Dodsley, 1785. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 93; later calf-backed boards, red morocco label on spine; very good. Though published six months after delivery, this speech was issued earlier than Burke intended, as he indicated 28 October in a letter to Sir Gilbert Elliot: 'When we left you - it was, I think prudently, determined not to print my Dundas speech until the Town should be full. But on getting to Edinburgh I found it advertised and out'

• Binding: Leather

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