Lettres sur l'angleterre.
Paris.
Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1825.
First edition.
8vo.
vii, [1], 428pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
A handsomely bound copy of the first edition of a collection of essays examining the political and cultural climate of England in the early nineteenth century by philanthropist Baron Auguste Louis de Stael-Holstein (1790-1827), eldest son of famed Swiss-born French woman of letters Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein (1766-1817).
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 24523