Democracy in America

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Published by Saunders and Otley, London, 1835

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Two volumes. First edition in English of Part I of this extremely important and influential analysis of American democracy, complete as issued; Part II of Democracy in America was not published until five years later in 1840. Bound in older three-quarter polished calf over marbled boards, ornatley decorated spine with raised bands and gilt stamping, top edges gilt. xliv, 333; viii, 462 + 2 [ads], complete with half-titles, ads and illustrated with a large hand-colored folding map as frontispiece in second volume. Near Fine. Light rubbing to bindings, sunning to spines. Minimal foxing to preliminary sheets, otherwise mostly clean. Light staining to covers of Volume I; a short hairline crack to the top of the front spine joint to Volume II, binding firm. "One of the most important texts in political literature." -- PMM. "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good." -- NYT.

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Democracy in America

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Saunders and Otley, London

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1835

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First Edition.

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