Advice to the Privileged Orders, in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government. Part 1

Joel Barlow

London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1792

Octavo. 152p. Second edition. Rebound in later quarter beige cloth. Marbled boards. Complementary work to Paine's Rights of Man, published just before Part II. Overshadowed by Thomas Paine, Barlow's treatise is a well composed political pamphlet against the remnants of Europe's feudal systems. Using allusions to the American Revolution, Barlow argues that elites in Europe should embrace the inevitability of the reforms occurring in France, producing long-term benefits for all of society in the end. A sensible political pamphlet has prejudised me in his favour. Mary Wollstonecraft (Letter to William Roscoe, 1792). Lacking pages 153-156p. Some pencil marginalia. Sabin 3414