THE PHILANTHROPIST; OR, PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS ON POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, MORALS AND MANNERS
London: D. I. Eaton, 1797. Octavo, 43 parts. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Spine with paper label. General shelfwear and rubbing, including hinges cracking, peeling and bumping to corners, sun-darkening to spine, rubbing along all edges. Tide marks along lower edge. Front free endpaper trimmed at top edge. Collective title page with ink name, dated 1891. Some sparse scattered blue pencil marks, primarily 'x' to mark passages.
Issue 43 lacking last leaf.
Shelved case 9.
1417508
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,000
NOTES
ESTC: P1993.
A series of inflamatory political pamphlets attacking the government and such anti-democratic conservatives as Edmund Burke. The imprint "sign" is a deliberate fiction. Publication ceased when Eaton fled to the U.S. to escape prosecution for publishing this and other works (DNB).
No. 1. (Monday, March 16th, 1795.)-no. 43. (Monday, January 25. 1796).