Title: Lavater's Letter to the French Directory. Translated from the German.
Description: London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1799. 1799. - Octavo. Softcover pamphlet, unbound, removed in the distant past. Half-title & 33 pages plus [1] page of publisher's ads. The half-title is detached with a few short tears to the edges. There are 2 short tears to the bottom edge of the leaves throughout. A good clean copy of this pamphlet and well worth binding.
The first edition in English. This work was translated from the German edition published without the author's knowledge as "Ein Wort eines freyes [sic] Schweizers an die Franzosische Nation..".
Subsequent to the French Revolution, France sought by force to impose its new system of government on its neighbors. Lavater chides the French representatives for their hostile actions in Switzerland. Applauding the principles of "Liberty, Equality, and the Rights of Man", Lavater tellingly signs the work in print at the end "In The First Year of Swiss Slavery".
The Swiss theologian Johann Caspar Lavater was the author of the significant work of "Essays on Physiognomy".
Scarce. Good .
Keywords: HISTORY; FRENCH REVOLUTION; SWITZERLAND; SWISS SLAVERY; JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER; SWISS; SLAVERY; FIRST YEAR; LETTER TO THE FRENCH DIRECTORY; ESSAY; FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH; TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY; 18TH CENTURY; 1ST; SCARCE; PAMPHLET; BO
- Book number: 26611
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