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4 volumes | 12mo | 160 x 100 mm ¶ Volume 2 dated 1812, all others 1807. First and only edition of Martin Smart's translation, excepting the large paper edition here reported by the publisher. ¶ Illustrated with 100 copper plates, including several library scenes, and many signed by Tomlinson or Warner (some misbound, but all present). Publisher's ad at end of v. 4 for a large paper edition of Gil Blas and a matching edition of Don Quixote. Includes a translator's preface and life of the author. ¶ Apparently an unrecorded variant of this Phillips edition, as records in OCLC and Copac offer no evidence for any volumes dated 1812, as found here with a cancelled v. 2 title page. --- CONDITION: Contemporary sprinkled brown calf; spines with black leather labels and gold tooling. ¶ Lacking final leaf of v. 4 (additional publisher's ad?); spines badly rubbed, the first two volumes lacking their labels; mild scattered foxing; light dampstaining to last two plates in v. 1; v. 2 frontispiece and… Leer más

DATA-DRIVEN PROVINCIAL GRIEVANCES ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION ¶ [6], 46; xj, [1]; 64 p. | 4to | pi1(=F1?) 2pi^2 A-E^4 F^4(F1=pi1?); A-C^2; a-h^4 | 246 x 193 mm ¶ First and only edition of this provincially produced report that both expounds local injustices and exposes corruption of the ancien régime at the national level. The author himself was born into a noble, but destitute, family, and had to earn his own in the Bourgogne army regiment. In the preface, he stakes out his position for an increasingly restive populace: "All those who can serve to develop the oppressive administration's disadvantages, under which we moan, should be placed in broad daylight by those who have succeeded in being well informed." In this spirit, the authors—Romainville uses nous, underscoring a cooperative effort—have worked from "knowledge that few people have been able to obtain, having given much time to the accuracy of the research and the results that we have drawn from it." ¶ More than an eloquent call to arms,… Leer más