Justin Croft Antiquarian Books - Rare and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

Second edition, a rare Revolutionary pamphlet, first published the year before, and amended here in light of the ‘happy events’ of the Revolution which ‘obligent le zèle et la bonne foi de l’auteur … de donner ici, comme dans un postscrit, ou supplément, les corrections et additions que la justice et le changement des circonstances rendent nécessaires’ (p. iii). The pagination in both versions, however, is identical. The author analyses the effects of a revolution in France by looking at the changes it would make under three headings – ‘La Justice, l’utilité, la facilité’; gives a spirited criticism of what is now known as the anciene régime; and joyously lauds the actions of his revolutionary comrades.