A Dissertation Upon Parties; In Several Letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq; Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole

. Hardcover. Date of Pub: 1749. 8vo, 322pp. Seventh Edition. Condition: Rebound in half calf on marbled boards with raised bands and gilt tooling. Slight worming to last seventy pages, at bottom of pages - text not affected. Author Description: 16 September 1678 - 12 December 1751) was an English politician and philosopher. He identified predominantly with the Tory faction, of which he was a prominent member for years. This is the last and most important of the series belonging to this group of Bolingbroke's writings, which appeared in The Craftsman in the autumn of 1733. The nineteen letters to Caleb D'Anvers are preceded by a dedication to Walpole, which denounces the foremost councillor of the reigning sovereign (and of his predecessor) as having gained that position "by wriggling, intriguing, whispering, and bargaining himself into this dangerous post, to which he was not called by the general suffrage, nor perhaps by the deliberate choice of his master himself. . . . .