Our Eminent Friend Edmund Burke: Six Essays

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, title page toned. 1949 Hard Cover. ix, 251 pp. Edmund Burke, (born January 12? [January 1, Old Style], 1729, Dublin, Ireland - died July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England), British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker prominent in public life from 1765 to about 1795 and important in the history of political theory. He championed conservatism in opposition to Jacobinism in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). - Britannica