(MANUSCRIPT; EDMUND BURKE INTEREST.) Student's exercise book, 1894-5. Quarto (202 x 168 mm). Contemporary quarter roan exercise book, cloth sides, approx. 190 pp., lined paper, written in pencil or purple crayon, containing notes from lectures on classical authors (Plautus, Seneca), Edmund Burke (approx. 20 pp., containing a summary of his political philosophy, e.g. 'we must preserve the constitution and pass it on intact ... Burke had a profound reverence for society and regarded its existence as almost a mysterious fact ... There are no such things as abstract rights a priori or if there are they're so modified and changed by the actual circumstances that they are valueless'),other 18th-century authors including Swift, Addison and Collins, linguistics, and other subjects. Spine rubbed, a few leaves evidently torn out, binding sound.