Mably, (G. Bonnot de.)

De l'étude de l'histoire, à Monseigneur le Prince de Parme. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.

      - A Mastreicht, chez Cavelier, librairie; et se trouve à Paris, chez Barrois l'aîné, Bailly, 1778. (4), 380 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, 252; Quérard, La France Littéraire, v, 405. First separate publication. This work 'was a byproduct of Mably's brother's tenure as tutor to the young Prince of Parma after 1758; a princely advice-book written in the early years of the 1760s, Mably's contribution to Condillac's Cours d'Études was first published with the set as a whole in 1777. (.) The principal focus of De l'Étude de l'histoire. is a sustained critique of social inequality, accompanied by a serious and approving reflection on the notion of a communauté des biens' (J. Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France. The political thought of Mably, pp. 97 ff.) [Attributes: Hard Cover]