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32 POLITICAL TRACTS COLLECTED BY AN OUTSIDER | NAMBY PAMBY, DEFOE AMERICANA, ETC. ¶ 4 vols | 8vo | 195 x 120 mm ¶ Complete contents: George Ridpath. Parliamentary right maintain'd, or, The Hanover succession justify'd... [London?] 1714. [10], 262 p. The longer of two editions published the same year. ESTC T43664. --- The character of the Parliament, commonly called the Rump… London: Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1721. iv, 38 p. One of three issues that year, all preceded by an edition ca. 1701. ESTC T30436. --- George Granville, Baron Lansdowne. A letter from a noble-man abroad to his friend in England. London, 1722. 8 p. One of three editions, all issued in 1722. ESTC T63012. --- A guide to the electors of Great-Britain, beings lists of all those members in the last Parliament who voted for and against such bills… London: S. Popping, 1722. [2], 28, [2] p. First and only edition. ESTC T116130. --- A compleat history of the late septennial Parliament… London: J. Peele, 1722. viii,…
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Collection of 32 political tracts bound in four volumes: Namby Pamby, etc.
by Daniel Defoe | Henry Carey | George Ridpath | George Granville | John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon | Nathaniel Gould | Karl Josef von Palm | William Thomas | Henry St. John | George Lyttelton | William Wyndham | Caleb D’Anvers | P
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Consolation des femmes vefves de Paris, touchant la mort de leurs marys ou aliez pour le service du Parlement
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SATIRE FOR WAR WIDOWS --- 7, [1] p. | 4to | [A]^2 B^2 | 210 x 150 mm --- First and only edition of this brief satirical address to those widowed by the Fronde, a series of civil wars in France waged 1648-1653. The work belongs to a class of some 5,000 political pamphlets, known as mazarinades, published during the insurrection. The title page bears a typical privilege statement (avec permission) and the coat of arms of Louis XIV, both of which we eye with some cynicism. ¶ The anonymous tract is addressed to Mes Dames, to the widows of those men lost in battle. The author thanks them for their sacrifices, for the sorrow they've borne as a result. The author speaks of women bawling their eyes out (p. 3: ces larmes pretieuses que vous avez versées jour & nuit; p. 4: ces torrents & cette abondance de larmes que vous versez continuellement). They implore them to find comfort in the glory they've earned for their country. ¶ In just about any other war, this might simply have been a creative dig…
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