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Le Moniteur. Numéro I-IV.
1788rif. 51530No place: no publisher 1788. The abolition of taxes First edition the first four numbers of Le Moniteur a political journal edited by Brissot de Warville Clavière and Condorcet all published. Issues two and four consider taxation proposing the abolition of all existing taxes and their replacement by equally distributed voluntary subsidies. In this volume the fourth number is the 50-page edition. Garrett notes: "The Bibliothèque nationale has the only complete collection of Le Moniteur. The British Museum has a 38-page edition of the fourth number and Cornell University has versions of the same pamphlet in 48- and 50-page editions. Among the other major collections of French revolutionary pamphlets in this country i.e. USA Le Moniteur is to be found only at Harvard University 48-page edition of the fourth number Princeton University 50-page edition of the fourth number and the New York Public Library an edition of the third number differing slightly from that in the Bibliothèque nationale" Garrett. 4 parts in one vol. octavo 188 x 119 mm pp. 14 2 bl.; 20; 32; 50. Ownership stamp of Thomas Valletau de Chabresy to title verso of the fourth part. Modern dark red quarter morocco spine lettered in gilt patterned paper boards old red edges to first 3 parts. Boards rubbed at lower outer edges some dampstaining to part 4 very good copies. Hatin 92; INED 815. Clarke W. Garrett "The Moniteur of 1788" in French Historical Studies vol. 5 no. 3 Spring 1968 pp. 263-73. hardcover
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