Baroness de Stael; Duke de Broglie and Baron de Stael, eds
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, Volumes I-II
New York, James Eastburn and Co, 1818. Leather. 2 vols. 404p; 344p. A set of two hardcover books bound in full brown leather. Good to very good condition overall. The spines are chafed and crackly-looking (more so on volume II), and the edges are rubbed. Bookplate inside both volumes' front covers, and various old ownership signatures and inscriptions on the endpapers. Corner torn off one of volume II's front endpapers. Pages deply tanned and foxed, and the side margins are dampstained in volume II. Otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight in both volumes. A history of the French Revolution by Germaine de Stael (1766-1817), a prominent political theorist of the Revolution and foremost member of the "Coppet Group," a network of intellectuals and salonnieres. .
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