de Stael Holstein, Madame la Baronne [Germaine]

Réflexions sur le Suicide

Londres: Chez L. Deconchy, 1813. First London edition. 8vo, 72pp; contemporary speckled calf tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, Devonshire emblem in gilt above leather spine label. Chatsworth bookplate on front pastedown; leather rather dried and flaking a bit. Item #205746

This London imprint appeared in the same year as the rare first edition published in Sweden. With eighteen blank leaves bound in at the rear to fill out the binding. de Stael's second essay on the subject of suicide and a reversal of her previous defense of the act. This copy derives from the Duke of Devonshire collection at Chatsworth House.

Price: $1,250.00