BEGGING AND MONASTERY SECULARISATION

[A mes concitoyens:] A mes concitoyens, ou réflexions patriotiques d'un françois, sur la sécularisation des religieux, & l'extinction de la mendicité. A Genève [Geneva] 1787.

An entirely unsophisticated, uncut, unbound copy of this Enlightenment philosophical discourse on questions of the extinction of begging and the secularisation of the monasteries.

Details

8vo. (22.6 cms. x 14 cms.), pp. [2] [3] 4-61 [1]. With the initial blank, conjugate with final leaf (blank on verso). A copy in an entirely unsophisticated state, uncut, stab-stitched, the "covers" formed simply by the book's first and last integral blank leaves (naturally, some light soiling and small tears to these first and last leaves; otherwise, light browning).

Conlon XXII 87:3 (different issue from same year).