4 Vol. Rare And Beautiful Copy "original Documents & Procedures Of The Trial Done At Rf Damien 1752

This beautiful copy in 4 volumes in 12, full calf spine with raised bands, boxes decorated with irons with a rosette, titles and volume numbers in red and ochre morocco, marbled guards, red edges. Complete and in good condition for this edition on the regicide of the King. "Original Documents and Procedures of the Trial of Robert-François Damiens, both in the Provost's Office of the Hotel and in the Court of Parliament". In Paris at Pierre-Guillaume Simon, Printer of the Parliament, rue de la Harpe, at the Hercule, MDCCLVII. (1757). Two editions of this work were published, one in a large volume in 8 of 650 pages printed in two columns appeared on 24 Mia 1757, the other the present one, the day after. It is necessary to admire with what speed it was written, composed, printed and published. He obtained a big trial but it is to be noted that written in 1757 by a civil servant (Le Breton, criminal clerk in Parliament following the advice of the shorter printer), this report is necessarily biased, deliberately incomplete, it does not contain for example the minutes of the Court (which were burned for fear of having some Councilors in complicity with Damien reopened)