Reflections on the Trial of The Prince de Polignac and His Colleagues

First edition. 4 pages of preliminaries, then 143 pages. Inscribed by Shee to the half-title page: "John Gage Esq (from the Author)", with a presentation letter to Gage tipped onto the front endpaper. The book is bound in brownish purple cloth covered boards, lettered in gilt to the spine, the cloth is quite marked and rubbed, with bumped corners, it has split along the hinges and been repaired roughly with tape, which looks as though it could probably be removed to allow a more professional repair, there is some chipping to the spine strip. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and age toned, most of the gatherings are entirely unopened, indicating that it has never been read, but somehow it has still had a hard life, with cracking at points, amateurishly repaired again with tape at 5 cracks with a strip of tape. Quite a rare treatise in commerce regarding the Second French Revolution of 1830, comparing it with Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688, with a critique of the trial of Charles X.…