MABLY (Gabriel de)

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MABLY (Gabriel de)
Phocion's interviews, on the relationship between morality and politics. Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, XII - 1804. In-12, XL pp. (including the portrait), 239 pp. and 1 p.n.ch.: glazed rooted green calf, double fillet and twist in frame, smooth spine decorated, inside roulette, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Very nice edition, decorated with a portrait of the author out of text and a portrait of Phocion on the title, both engraved in intaglio by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. One of the few copies on large wove paper. Gabriel Bonnot (1709-1785), who became abbot of Mably, is regarded as one of the thinkers of the Revolution. The Jacobins, it has been said, were disciples of Mably almost as much as of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "One year after the Social Contract appeared a small work which, in the minds of contemporaries, was destined to be a considerable success, to the point of being considered the work of the century" (Chatelet & Duhamel, Dictionary of Political Works, p. 712). Portrait of the author and small portrait of Phocion on the title, both engraved in intaglio by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Exquisite binding attributable to Bozerian, with flamed decoration with silvery reflections.
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