Deux Republiques

  • Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880
By A. Edouard Portalis
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. Very Good. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers; [4],356pp. Some scuffing to boards with brief exposure at corners, spine leather a shade sunned, textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed due to inferior paper stock, shallow dampstain to fore-edge of early leaves including title page; still, overall Very Good and internally sound.

Political treatise by the radical, pro-Communard journalist, whose newspaper "Le Corsaire" had come under scrutiny a decade earlier for its support of the anti-clerical politician Désiré Barodet.

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