Book ID: 28978 A Dialogue Between a Gentleman of London, Agent for Two Court Candidates, and an Honest Alderman of the Country Party. Wherein the Grievances under which the Nation at Present Groans are Fairly and Impartially Laid Open and Considered. Earnestly Addressed to the Electors of Great-Britain. HENRY FIELDING.

"The most skillful of all Fielding's political writings"

A Dialogue Between a Gentleman of London, Agent for Two Court Candidates, and an Honest Alderman of the Country Party. Wherein the Grievances under which the Nation at Present Groans are Fairly and Impartially Laid Open and Considered. Earnestly Addressed to the Electors of Great-Britain.

Place and Imprint: London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747.
Edition: Second edition, issued the same year as the first.
Bibliographical References: ESTC T89864; Cross III, 315; NCBEL II, 930.
Condition: Very good copy.
Book ID: 28978

Physical Description

8vo, recent quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, gilt decorations and lettering. With half-title.

Comments

A satire in the form of a dialogue, in which Henry Fielding sheds positive light on the policies of the government against Republican sentiments. An alderman and a gentleman debate the candidates and the electoral process, corruption, liberty, divine right of kings, discontent of the electorate, etc., and conclude that when reform does come "let it be soberly and temperately done; not according to the impracticable schemes of school-boy politicians or the furious passions of party zealots." According to Martin Battestin in his biography Henry Fielding, A Life (1989), this dialogue is "the most skillful of all Fielding's political writings."

Price: $500.00

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