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Publicado por G.P. Putnam's, New York, NY, 1907
Librería: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. EX-LIB. Text/Near New. Gilt embossed maroon boards/NF; w/light rubs to leading edges & corner tips. DJ/None. Upper text edge in gilt. 2nd title page removed. Frontispiece, Mme de Stael; other illustrations include a fold-out facsimile of a letter (BRAND NEW). Copy acquired by the Boston-Library Society Sept. 19th, 1907. Compilation of hittherto unpublished letters of French novelist & critic Mme (nee Anne Louise Germaine Necker) de Stael (1766 - 1817) whose best-known critical work De l'Allemagne (1810) introducing late 18th century German writers and thinkers to France was banned on publication by Napoleon. The correspondence between Mme Stael and Benjamin Constant shed light on their political thoughts as France wrestled with liberty and bondage from a military chief but thirty years old. Appendix carries the eulogy written by Benjamin Constant from the Moniteur Universelle of July 27th, 1817. Fine copy.