Select Works of Edmund Burke: Letters on a Regicide Peace

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 3 presents Burke’s Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France —generally styled Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795–1796). The Letters , Payne believed, deserve to “rank even before [Burke’s] Reflections , and to be called the writer’s masterpiece.” Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductor