The work appeared anonymously at the end of 1788, but it is dated the next year. It was sold for one guinea, in boards. Fifty copies were printed on large paper, with the plate on page 3 in colors. Although it seems to have sold well, it was the only edition issued during the author's lifetime. White wrote to a friend in 1789: "My book is still asked for in Fleet Street. A gent. came the other day, and said he understood that there was a Mr. White who had lately published two books, a good one and a bad one; the bad one was concerning Botany Bay ['_A Voyage to New South Wales_,' by John White (no relation), published in 1790], the better respecting some parish." The index, which White described when he was making it as "an occupation full as entertaining as that of darning of stockings," was criticised for not being full enough, a criticism applicable to every edition issued since the first. Quarto. COLLATION: _1 l., v., 468 pp., 7 ll. Seven plates._ EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) 63. Reflections | On The | Revolution In France, | [Four lines] In A | Letter | Intended To Have Been Sent To A Gentleman | In Paris. | By The Right Honorable | Edmund Burke. | London: | Printed For J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall. | M.DCC.XC. It was well known, long before the book appeared, that Burke was at work upon this subject. As early as October, 1789, he had written a letter expressing his opinion on the revolutionary movement in France, and in this volume he but gave in permanent form a more elaborate and careful presentation of the same subject. Interest in the new volume was in no way diminished, but rather increased by the delay; and when the little book made its appearance, November 1, in a modest unlettered wrapper of gray paper, selling for five shillings, it created a profound impression. The King called it "a good book, a very good book; every gentleman ought to read it," and it ran into eleven editions, or eighteen thousand copies, within a twelvemonth. Our author and his publishers were well known to each other at this time: they had issued his _A Vindication of Natural Society_ in 1756; and he had been the conductor and chief editor of the historical portion of their _Annual Register_ for a number of years. Octavo. COLLATION: _iv, 356 pp._ THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) 64. Rights Of Man: | Being An | Answer To Mr. Burke's Attack | On The | French Revolution. | By | Thomas Paine, | Secretary For Foreign Affairs to Congress In The | American War, And | Author Of The Work Intitled Common Sense. | London: | Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard. | MDCCXCI.