[ANON]. Essai sur le principe de la souveraineté. Par un grand vicaire … London, Cox, Fils and Baylis for A. Dulau, 1804.
8vo, pp. [iv], 196; evenly browned throughout; uncut in early paper wrappers, foot of spine chipped, spine labels lettered in MS ink.
First edition, published in the wake of Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor. The work assesses sovereignty using the evidence of philosophers from Locke to Rousseau and Hobbes to Montesquieu. The anonymous author appears to have used a London publisher (the well-known firm of Dulau) so that he may express more freely his anti-Buonapartist opinions.Goldsmiths’ 18948.
£225
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