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Webster, Nesta H.
The Chevalier de Boufflers: A Romance of the French Revolution.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., New York;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 9824
Reprint. Octavo, pp. xv, [1], 441, [1]. 6 plates, including frontispiece of Le Chevalier with tissue guard, plus 3 facsimile letters, of which one is fold-out. Bound by Sangorksi and Sutcliffe in black half-morocco with 5 raised bands. Gilt titles to spine and decoration to compartments, gilt crest, and gilt fillets; marbled paper-covered boards and matching endpapers. Slight wear at upper joint and to corners; boards lightly scuffed. Minor ink-marks to frontispiece and tissue guard otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Nesta Webster’s first book on the subject of the French Revolution, an historical romance based around the life of the French statesman and writer Chevalier de Boufflers. Webster believed that she was reincarnated from that period, and credited a theory that continental freemasons were responsible for the Revolution; she also promoted anti-semitic beliefs and theories about the illuminati, and associated with fascist groups in the inter-war years. £50.00