1749 A Dissertation Upon Parties; In Several Letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq.

Description

Leather Binding

The seventh edition of this work, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.

Initially published in The Craftsman, Bolingbroke offers a sustained attack on Sir Robert Walpole and the Whig party, prompted by the 1733 Excise Bill and the 1734 Septennial Bill, and arranged in a series of letters.

With the armorial bookplate of Lieutenant Colonel Grame to the front pastedown.

ESTC Citation No. T16281

The work of English politician, government official and political philosopher Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England, despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology