Antoine BLANC de SAINT-BONNET Lot n° 10

French Restoration. New edition. Tournai, Vve Castermann, 1872. In-8 of XVIII, 483 (the text starts on page [5] without missing), (1) pp. in contemporary binding in bottle-green half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with cold fillets, edges in colour. Second edition, published 21 years after the first (1851). Reacting to the Revolution of 1848, Saint-Bonnet approaches here the economic and social questions with a relevance that will be recognized by his opponents on the political level, condemning together socialism and liberalism and advocating a social renovation based on the real nature of the man. Autograph signed letter from the author to Charles Gounod on the title page. Beginning of a split at the upper spine, wear at the edges of the boards, some light foxing, reading marks in pencil. Stamp partly erased and ex dono in pencil dated 1932 on the false title. Ex-libris Pierre Sedille.