Thompson, J.M. English Witnesses of the French Revolution , Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1938.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo Dust jacket complete, but price clipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's book plate on f. paste down. xii, 265 pages clean and tight. Narratives of 50 witnesses of the events of 1785-1796. It is not generally realised how many English people were in Paris during the French Revolution, and wrote down some account of their experiences. QHere is an attempt to collect the most important and interesting evidence. It comes from the British Embassy-Lord Dorset, Lord Gower, and their staffs-from travellers such as Arthur Young, Edward Rigby and John Moore; and from residents as different as James Blaikie, the Scotch gardener, and William Beckford, of Fonthill. Mrs Piozzi, Tom Paine,William Wordsworth, Samuel Rogers, Lord Palmerston, William Cobbett, and Mary Wollstonecraft are among the fifty witnesses whose narratives, never before collected together, contain much that is of new and absorbing interest about the great events of 1785-1796. (Book ref. 124616)  £69.00

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