Timon; Headley, J. T.; Colton, G. H. The Orators of France: By Timon, (Viscount de Cormenin). Translated by A Member of The New York Bar; from the XIVth Paris Edition; With an Essay on the Rise of French Revolutionary Eloquence, and the Orators of the Girondists, by J. T. Headley: Edited by G. H. Colton, with Notes and Biographical Addenda: Illustrated. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1847. First American Edition. [10934]
Faded publisher's cloth, binding otherwise good with no damage, 8 x 5 inches, tight. Lacks the ffep (blank) and the tissue guard for the frontispiece. Frontispiece & five additional portraits, complete, list below. xxx, 382 pages, foxing throughout. Good. Hardcover.
The portrait plates are of Mirebeau, Danton, Napoleon, Lamartine, Guizot, and Thiers.
The introduction says that one of the reasons for introducing these orations to the American public is that they are of such style and strength that American orators should learn from them.
When first published in Europe the book went quickly through several editions, and that "no work issued in Europe for some years past, has been more extensively popular than these singular and powerful sketches, or 'Portraits,' as the Author more aptly entitles them."
