Whence Mount St. Helens
Observations on the appeal from the new to the old Whigs, and on Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man. In two parts
London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1792. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 283, [1], [16] Stockdale ads; original pink paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on upper cover; the whole rather rubbed and worn at the edges, the spine with small pieces out at the top and bottom, but otherwise, good and sound. Early inscription on the front free endpaper of "St. Helens," and about a dozen or so marks of readership in ink, i.e.: (1) p. 70: comment in lower margin questioning the use of the word “express”; (2) p. 76: textual correction; (3) p. 107: left margin, drawing of hand with finger pointing at text; (4) p. 134: correction to footnote text; (5) p. 142: page number corrected, and spelling correction in text; (6) p. 163: correction to text; (7) p. 195: extensive quotation in French, ascribed to Mont. Liv. VIII. Chap. IV, annotating a point in the text; (8) p. 201: correction to text; (9) p. 209: two corrections to text; (10) pp. 212-216: extended comment in lower margins on the status and purpose of the elected members of the House of Commons; (11) p. 259: correction to punctuation; (12) p. 267: correction to punctuation. Given the inscription "St. Helens" on the front free endpaper, this was almost certainly Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St. Helens (his title being created first in 1791, and then for a second time in 1801). Wikipedia notes that he was a friend of explorer George Vancouver, who named Mount St. Helens in what is now the U.S. state of Washington after him. A critique of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man, and of Edmund Burke's An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs in the context of the French Revolution. Boothby claimed that the major threat was not from the French Revolution but from the power of the Crown. He wanted a middle way between Burke and Paine. Item #66490
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