1790 A Discourse on the Love of our Country, Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting- House in the Old Jewry to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain

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An Important Work, Early Edition, Rebound, Scarce

The sought after third edition of this work being the first expanded edition, rebound in a cloth binding with renewed end papers. Richard Price (1723-1791) was a Welsh moral philosopher and Nonconformist minister who was active in radical, republican, and liberal causes. Within months of the French Revolution, Price delivered this to a meeting of the Society for the Commemoration of England's Glorious Revolution. It is an important essay in support of revolution. Here Price traces the course of human rights, from the Glorious Revolution to the American and French Revolutions with particular emphasis on the role revolution and uprising had to play in their advancement. A flurry of important pamphlets followed starting with Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) where Burke took the side of the French establishment, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). The third edition of this work, issued one year after the first edition, and the first expanded edition with additions to the appendix to the rear of the volume. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.