1852 Shakespeare and His Times

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The very scarce first English language edition of this work, published in the same year as the original French.

The work of Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, a French historian, orator and statesman. Once a dominant figure in French politics, he worked to sustain a constitutional monarchy in the country, and opposed attempts by Charles X to usurp legislative power.

Containing five essays on Shakespeare by Guizot, titled 'Shakespeare and his Times', 'Shakespeare's Tragedies', 'Dramatic Art in France', 'Shakespeare's Historical Dramas' and 'Shakespeare's Comedies'.

With the armorial bookplate of 'Cranstoun of Corehouse' to the front pastedown. George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse was a Scottish advocate, judge and satirist.