Germaine de Stael — Oeuvres de Mme la Baronne de Stael
Paris, Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1820-21. Leather. The first edition of the complete works of Germaine de Stael in fiften volumes. A fifteen-volume set of the works of Germaine de Stael. First edition of the complete works. 15 volumes of original 17. Volumes include: Volume I- Notice sur le caracte`re et les erits de Mme. de Stae-, Lettres sur J.J. Rousseau; Volume II: Morceaux divers: Relexions sur le proce`s de la reine, Relexions sur la paix, adresses a` M. Pitt et aux Francis. 1794,  Relexions sur la paix inteieure, 1795, Essai sur les fictions ,Trois nouvelles: Mirza, ou Lettres d'un voyageur, Adeaie et Thedore, Histoire de Pauline, Zulma, fragment d'un ouvrage; Volume III: De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus, et des nations, Relexions sur le suicide; Volume IV: De la litteature, considere dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales; Volume V- VII: Delphine ; Volumes VIII-IX: Corinne, ou L'Italie; Volume X-XI: De l'Allemagne; Volume XII-XIV: Consideations sur les principaux eeemens de la reolution francise; Volume XV: Dix annes d'exil With a frontispiece of the author to volume I. Germaine de Stael, commonly known as Madame de Stael, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism. In half calf bindings. Externally, rubbed with some bumping to all volume.s Wear to spines. Some joints and hinges starting but generally firm, with front joint to volume IV failed and board detached but present. Bookplates to front pastedown of all volumes and endpapers clipped. Internally, generally firmly bound, although strained in places. Pages bright with some spotting throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
