GERMAINE DE STAËL. Maria Fairweather. — Madame de Staël. A biography.

Constable, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 522pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With eighteen illustrations. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fine but for a short jagged indentation to the rear panel. "In her lifetime it was widely said that there were three political powers in Europe - Britain, Russia and Madame de Staël. Byron described her as 'the first female writer of this, perhaps of any age', Stendhal as 'the chief talent of the age'. Germaine de Staël was certainly the most remarkable woman of her time and she remains unique - both for the scope of her artistic and intellectual achievements and the force of her political influence, which helped to bring down Napoleon" - blurb., Fine, Very Good