[MAISEAU]. [TALLEYRAND]. - Lot 57

[MAISEAU]. [TALLEYRAND]. Manual on Freedom of the Press, or Analysis of the Legislative Debates on the Three Laws Concerning the Press, Newspapers, and Periodicals. Paris, Pillet Ainé, 1819. In-12, 324 pp. Contemporary fawn-colored, full-grain sheepskin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and small gilt metal fittings (butterflies and hunting horns), title label of decorated pink paper, gilt title, blind-stamped fillet on the covers, finely speckled yellow edges (rounded corners, slight general wear on the binding but a fine copy). First edition. A copy from Talleyrand’s library. From the library of his château at Valençay, bearing his ex libris engraved with the estate’s full coat of arms (the third quarter of his coat of arms) and adorned with his Occitan motto “Re que diou,” along with the library’s stamp.