Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret - Londres en mil huit cent vingt ou Recueil de lettres sur la politique, la littérature et les moeurs - 1821

Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret. London in the year eighteen hundred twenty or Collection of letters on politics, literature and mores during the course of the year 1820. Paris, Gide, 1821, 385 pp.

An octavo volume (210x135 mm), softcover, paper covers. Tears and losses of paper on the covers and the spine. Interior fresh, without foxing.

Original edition

In the form of letters, Defauconpret offers a chronicle of London life observed during 1820, mixing politics, literature, entertainments, mores and anecdotes. The text notably addresses parliamentary life, political debates, public figures, theatres and actors, writers and newspapers, as well as various affairs and curiosities of English society