Earl of Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie,
Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke… On the Affairs of America
Printed in London for W. Jackson, J. Almon, and J. Bew. 1777
$150.00
The Political Maverick and The leading British supporter of colonial rights attacks Edmund Burke for temporizing. Here in the First Edition. Complete in All Respects
“for If the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot (idiot) only to suppose that we can preserve our own. The dagger uplifted against the breast of America, is meant for the heart of Old England.”
The volume(s) measure about cm. by cm. by cm.
Each leaf measures about 185 mm. by 120 mm.
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Main description
The full title reads as follows:
“Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Eqs; To the Sheriffs of Bristol, On the Affairs of America. By the Earl of Abingdon. / Oxford, Printed for W. Jackson: Sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly, and J. Bew, in Paternoster-Row, London; and by the Booksellers of Bristol, Bath, and Cambridge. [Price One Shilling.]”
The Volume is Complete The volume is paginated as follows: [3]-64.
The volume collates as follows: A-D8.
Condition
The Volume is in Very Good Condition dis-bound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, trimmed a bit close at the tops, cutting into the pagination a bit, and with some stains at the title and mild toning otherwise.
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Biography / Bibliography
Of the Earl of Abingdon
Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, styled Lord Norreys from 1745 to 1760, was an English peer and music patron. Bertie was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the second eldest son of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon and Anna Maria Collins. On 29 January 1759, he matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford and received his MA on 29 May 1761.
Abingdon earned himself the reputation of a political maverick. His obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine remarked that “his frequent speeches in the House of Peers were peculiarly eccentric”. An outspoken critic of Lord North and his administration, he rigorously defended the liberties of the American colonies, yet denounced the French Revolution as a threat to “the Peace, the Order, the Subordination, the Happiness of the whole habitable Globe.” He argued that the movement for the abolition of the slave trade was simply the result of a “new philosophy” inspired by the new French republic
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