Two letters on the Conduct of our Domestick Parties, with regard to French Politicks

The Volume is in Very Good Condition bound in later wraps. The leaves are generally clean, with clear print and ample margins throughout. The stab-marks from the original 18th century sewing are visible in the blank gutter margin throughout. The half-title and the title are lightly toned and mildly foxed. The final few leaves are damp-stained, not obscuring the text, but certainly extending into the text, and with some of the final leaves loose or detached.

On the Two Letters

Two more letters released by Burke’s estate. The first, Observations, had already been released as a pirated version.

‘The “observations on the Conduct of the Minority in the Session of 1793,” were surreptitiously printed at the beginning of the present year; but, as it usually happens with such frauds, in a very mangled state, under a false title, and without the real letter to the Duke of Portland, which should have been prefixed.” (p. vi) “Burke since corrected by his own hand, one of the printed copies (p. xii), and the editors have now determined to publish it in a less mutilated form’.

The second letter, as the editors report, (p. xiv), ‘though it has never been in print, was written with a view to the press. It was occasioned by a speech of a noble Duke [Norfolk], on the 8^th of May, 1795, in the debate on the recall [from Ireland] of Lord Fitzwilliam.’