[English History] Reasons Against A War With France, Or An Argument Shewing That The French King's Owning The Prince Of Wales As King Of England, Scotland And Ireland; Is No Sufficient Ground Of A War [Daniel Defoe] History & Military

8vo; in a later signed binding by Ramage of half-mottled calf over marbled boards; 30 pages; the top and fore edges have been trimmed; minor paper repair to the bottom of the final leaf, affecting a catchword; with the armorial bookplate of Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) on the modern front pastedown; this copy has been rebacked by a conservator using Japanese tissue.~~First Edition of Daniel Defoe's anonymous political pamphlet, Reasons Against a War with France. "Though ostensibly arguing that the French sanction of an empty title was no sufficient ground for a war, his real purpose was to urge that the solid interests of England lay in securing for itself the colonial empire of Spain" (DNB). Defoe argued strenuously of the dangers to English trade such a war would provoke. (Moore 39. ESTC T56951. DNB V, 732.). Very Good binding.