Folio Archives 404: Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 2010
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event in a Letter Intended to Have been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris by Edmund Burke. 2010
This beautifully bound book is probably one of the driest, turgid and most difficult to read I have encountered in years, so much so that I gave up. On the other hand, it is one of the great 18th. century writings on political philosophy and revolutionary thought. As such it will appeal to those who are dedicated historians of the French revolution, and politics on both sides of the Channel at that time.
Written only 18 months after the French Revolution, it is purportedly a long letter to an anonymous Frenchman and demonstrates the dangers of rapid political changes, be they in France, England in 1688 (the glorious revolution) or even America. Political theory is applied to contemporary happenings, with a bias in favour of gentle change rather than revolution.
Burke was an Irish conservative, Whig, anti-Jacobite and protestant. In the book he contends with the likes of Dr Richard Price, a leading Protestant dissenter, who supported the French revolution while Burke sided more with the Catholic monarchy.
The book has a one page appendix of Burke’s Prefatory Note, and is edited with extensive notes at the back of the book by Conor Cruise O’Brien. There is an introduction by A.C. Grayling and 17 pages of bound in colour pictures. The xvii + 234 page book has dark red endpapers and is dramatically bound in black cloth blocked and printed on the front cover in gold and red with a design and guillotine. The black slipcase measures 26.2x16.9cm.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
This beautifully bound book is probably one of the driest, turgid and most difficult to read I have encountered in years, so much so that I gave up. On the other hand, it is one of the great 18th. century writings on political philosophy and revolutionary thought. As such it will appeal to those who are dedicated historians of the French revolution, and politics on both sides of the Channel at that time.
Written only 18 months after the French Revolution, it is purportedly a long letter to an anonymous Frenchman and demonstrates the dangers of rapid political changes, be they in France, England in 1688 (the glorious revolution) or even America. Political theory is applied to contemporary happenings, with a bias in favour of gentle change rather than revolution.
Burke was an Irish conservative, Whig, anti-Jacobite and protestant. In the book he contends with the likes of Dr Richard Price, a leading Protestant dissenter, who supported the French revolution while Burke sided more with the Catholic monarchy.
The book has a one page appendix of Burke’s Prefatory Note, and is edited with extensive notes at the back of the book by Conor Cruise O’Brien. There is an introduction by A.C. Grayling and 17 pages of bound in colour pictures. The xvii + 234 page book has dark red endpapers and is dramatically bound in black cloth blocked and printed on the front cover in gold and red with a design and guillotine. The black slipcase measures 26.2x16.9cm.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
