Observations on a late state of the nation. The second edition.

London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 8vo, pp. [4], 155; this second edition follows the first by 15 days; Kress, 6612; Sabin 9294; bound with: Burke, E., Substance of the speech … in thr [sic] debate on the army estimates, in the House of Commons … comprehending a discussion of the present situation of affairs in France. London, J. Debrett, 1790, first edition, first impression, pp. [2], 36, lacking the final leaf of ads; bound with: Burke, E., A letter … to a noble lord, on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale. London: J. Owen, and F. and C. Rivington, 1796, pp. [4], 80; "the thirteenth edition," the "last revised impression" (Todd). Together 3 titles in recent black cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt lettered direct in gilt on spine; title of the second dusty and with an old library rubberstamp, also mild waterstain at lower margins; thethird with dusty half-title and verso of final leaf. Todd 16b, 52a, and 65m respectively. Item #25474

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