[PEYRONNET (Pierre-Denis Charles, comte de)]: - Compte General de l'Administration de la Justice Criminelle en France, Pendant l'Amee 1825, Presente au Roi, par le Garde des Sceaux, Ministre Secretaire d'Etat au Department de la Justice.

Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale. 1827. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 283 x 218 mms., pp. xi [xii contents, xiii first part, xiv blank], 110 [111 Errata, 112 blank, 113 - 116 index], handsomely bound in full red straight-grain morroco, gilt roll borders on cover, with two borders in blind, and a central modified lozenge in each panel, spine richly gilt, all edges gilt, blue silk end-papers; additional plain end-papers slightly foxed, some very slight wear to joints, but a very, very good to find copy. This first scientific report on crime in France was prepared by the Count de Peyronnet (1778-1854), who ountersigned the ordinances that provoked the July Revolution of 1830 and put an end to the regime. The minister reports thus on the administration of justice during the reign of Charlex X of France (1757 - 1836).

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