SAGGIO STORICO SULLE ORIGINI DEL GOVERNO RAPPRESENTATIVO NEI REGNI DI CASTIGLIA, DI FRANCIA E D'INGHILTERRA

First Edition. Hardback. Tall 8vo. pp. VII, 142, Dedication in print to Michele Coppino, of whom Rinaudo had been a pupil. Documented study on the formation of the modern democratic government in Spain, France and England. Rinaudo, born in 1848 in Busca, near Cuneo, died in 1922, was a professor of history in Turin, both in high schools and at the university, and also dealt with philosophy, theology and law in an extensive bibliography. Rebound in handsome half brown leather with marbled boards with original printed orange wraps preserved. Wraps slightly dusty, binding slightly used and slightly rubbed at edges else abvery good. The novelist George Meredith's copy with his label 'From the Library of George Meredith, Flint Cottage, Box Hill.' Alos with the ownership signature of his son Arthur Meredith.