BURKE, Edmund (1729-97). Reflections on the Revolution in France ... The Eighth Edition, London, 1791 [Bound with Paine's:] Rights of Man ... Fourth Edition, London, 1791, 2 works bound in one, 8vo, 19th-century half calf.

BURKE, Edmund (1729-97).  Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... The Eighth Edition. London: J. Dodsley, 1791 [bound with:] Thomas PAINE (1737-1809).  Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Fourth Edition. London: J. S. Jordan, 1791. 2 works bound in one [Rights of Man without the second part published the following year], 8vo (208 x 128mm). Half title and printed dedication to George Washington in the second work, one-page printed "Resolution" headed "At a Meeting of the Society for Constitutional Information, Held on Wednesday the 23d. of March, 1791" and concluding "Daniel Adams, Secretary" followed by 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of the second work (first work: one leaf torn without loss, sections cut away from the upper margin of a few leaves, not affecting text, and a few leaves browned, a few darker spots occasionally affecting letters; second work: some spotting and browning.) 19th-century red half calf gilt (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: George Drewry Squibb (1906-94, lawyer, herald and antiquary, his label); library shelf-number label; C. [?]Ward and [?]Rushton (two old signatures on the title page of the first work, the first repeated, but cropped, at the head of the half title of the second); some ink highlighting to the first work. [First work:] Cf. PMM 239; Todd 53 (both citing the first edition of 1790). [Second work:] Cf. PMM 241: "... the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy"; Goldsmiths' 15024; Howes P31 (citing the first edition, printed in February of the same year as the present fourth edition).