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[BURKE, Edmund (1729-97)] A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society ... By a late Noble Writer, London: M. Cooper, 1756. 8° (195 x 124mm.). (Title spotted with a few minor repairs, hole at margin of final text leaf, lacking final blank). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. (Lightly stained and rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Todd 3a. Burke's first published work, and his most problematic. "This work contrasts sharply with Burke's other writings, for it is hardly in keeping with the current image of the Father of New Conservatism. A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke's Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism ... [Burke's] own belated explanation was that the Vindication was a satire ..." (see Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 19, no. 1 (January 1958), pp. 114-118).
FIRST EDITION. Todd 3a. Burke's first published work, and his most problematic. "This work contrasts sharply with Burke's other writings, for it is hardly in keeping with the current image of the Father of New Conservatism. A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke's Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism ... [Burke's] own belated explanation was that the Vindication was a satire ..." (see Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 19, no. 1 (January 1958), pp. 114-118).