John Anthony Scott (ed.); Thomas Cornell (illus.), The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome, 1964

John Anthony Scott (ed.); Thomas Cornell (illus.)

The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome, 1964

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press

One of 300 copies. Signed by Leonard Baskin at the colophon and by Cornell under each illustration.

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$ 400.00

John Anthony Scott (ed.); Thomas Cornell (illus.), The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome, 1964

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Quarto. 84pp + 21 inserted plates. The plates, printed on blue paper, bear twenty-one different portraits of the major players in Babeuf's case. Babeuf, who had been arrested for his...

Quarto. 84pp + 21 inserted plates. The plates, printed on blue paper, bear twenty-one different portraits of the major players in Babeuf's case. Babeuf, who had been arrested for his role in the Consipracy of Equals during the French Revolution, used his defense to continue to advocate for the abolition of private property and radical democracy. Sheets unbound, housed in orange morocco chemise with gilt spine titling, within clamshell box. Natural spots to morocco, some shelf-rubbing to box, else near fine.

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