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BAILLY, JEAN-SYLVAIN. Mémoires d'un Témoin de la Révolution. [4], 335, [1]; [4], 388; [4], 374, [2] pages, including half-titles, and errata leaf at end. 3 volumes. 8vo, 206x124 mm, contemporary tree calf with red morocco lettering pieces, cover corners bumped and rubbed; small paper flaw in blank outer margin of Volume 2 title, occasional toning or browning in Volume 3. Paris: Levrault, Schoell et C.nie, 1804
first edition of Bailly's posthumously published memoir of his political career in the early years of the French Revolution, during which he was elected first President of the National Assembly and later became the first mayor of Paris, before being guillotined in 1793. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, pages 24-25.
