Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republicks. Adapted to the present state of Great Britain.

MONTAGU, Edward Wortley, Junior.

Published by London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand, 1760

About this Item

Second edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front pastedown and free endpaper, a little toned; contemporary sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, joints rubbed and cracked at spine ends but holding, spine ends rubbed with loss to caps; [6], 388, [4]pp. The second edition of this historical work by travel writer and MP Edward Wortley Montagu Junior on the ancient republics of Sparta, Athens, Thebes, Carthage, and Rome, with reflections also on the British constitution. Montagu (1713-1776) was the son of his namesake-father, the British MP and diplomat Edward Wortley Montagu, and his wife, the aristocratic writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who is chiefly remembered today for her Turkish Embassy Letters. The younger Montagu accompanied his parents to Constantinople in 1716, and was the first Englishman to be inoculated for smallpox. ESTC T98246.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republicks. Adapted to the present state of Great Britain.
• Publisher: London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand
• Publication Date: 1760