Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnSELECT WORKS OF EDMUND BURKErnA New Imprint of the Payne EditionrnIn Three Volumes, andrnMISCELLANEOUS WRITINGSrnCompiled and with a foreword and notes,rnby Francis CanavanrnBurke has endured as the permanent manual of politicalrnwisdom without which statesmen are as sailors on anrnuncharted sea.rn—Harold LaskirnOriginally published by Oxford University Press inrnthe 1890s, the famed Payne edition of SelectrnWorks of Burke is universally revered by students ofrnEnglish history and political thought. Volume 1rncontains Burke’s brilliant defense of the Americanrncolonists’ complaints of British policy, includingrn”Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents”rn(1770), “Speech on American Taxation” (1774), andrn”Speech on Conciliation” (1775). Volume 2 consistsrnof Burke’s renowned Reflections on the Revolution inrnFrance. Volume 3 presents Burke’s Four Letters onrnthe Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory ofrnFrance—generally styled Letters on a Regicide Peacern(1795-1796). The Letters, Payne believed, deserve torn”rank even before [Burke’s] Reflections, and to berncalled the writer’s masterpiece.” Faithfully reproducedrnin each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductoryrnessays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burkernscholars of the twentieth century, has added forewordsrnand a biographical note on Payne. In the companionrnvolume, Canavan has collected seven of Burke’srnmajor contributions to English political thinking onrnrepresentation in Parliament, on economics, on thernpolitical oppression of the peoples of India andrnIreland, and on the enslavement of African blacks andrnhas compiled a select bibliography on Burke.rnVolume 1: Thoughts on the Cause of the PresentrnDiscontents and The Two Speeches on AmericarnHardcover $20.00 0-86597-162-5rnPaperback $10.00 0-86597-163-3rnVolume 2: Reflections on the Revolution in FrancernHardcover $20.00 0-86597-164-1rnPaperback $10.00 0-86597-165-XrnVolume 3: Letters on a Regicide PeacernEditor’s foreword, editor’s note, introduction by E. J. Payne.rnHardcover $20.00 0-86597-166-8rnPaperback $10.00 0-86597-167-6rnThree-volume setrnHardcover $55.00rnPaperback $27.00rnMiscellaneous WritingsrnHardcover $18.00rnPaperback $ 9.00rn(Indi.^iia residents add 5% sales tax)rn0-86597-253-2rn0-86597-254-0rn0-86597-168-4rn0-86597-169-2rnCall 800-955-8335 T i K p r h / Fl in’flrnFax 317-579-6060rnor writernWf payrnshipping onrnprepaid orders.rn8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite #300, Dept. S12B, Indianapolis, IN 46250^1684rnExplore Libertv Fund’s catalogue on the World Wide Web atrnw’u’w.libertyfund.orgrnrnrn