Author: J.C. BLUETT
Title: Duelling and the Laws of Honour Examined, upon Principles of Common Sense and Revealed Truth.
Description: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. pp. xv, 156, [2, publisher's catalogue]. Original cloth, small ink spot to front cover. Apart from the preface, completely unopened and unread> a Fine copy. The rare 1st Edition, reprinted the following year. Far from being a manual for duelling, this is a measured rebuttal of the practice which, in any case, was beginning to die out in England despite "Within a short period we have seen three successive Prime Ministers of Great Britain, at times of great political excitement and national ferment, engaging in affairs of honour> one fighting a duel, and the other two taking the steps that usually led to it." from the preface.

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