Edmond ABOUT. *Le Progrès*. Paris: Hachette, 1864. In-8, blue half-maroquin,...

Edmond ABOUT. *Le Progrès*. Paris: Hachette, 1864.
In-8, blue half-maroquin, ribbed spine decorated with gilded panels, gilded head, dedicatory inscription.
[2 ff.], 489 pp., [1 f.]
First edition. The work is dedicated to George Sand, who had advised him to write it. Inscription: “To my dear friend Alexandre” [Dumas, the Younger].
Labor, law, association, cities and the countryside, the State, property, the budget, the non-values of land, the non-values of society, progress in the arts and literature, education, repression, politics, and war… or how a 19th-century writer viewed issues that remain relevant today.
Spine worn, a few foxing spots.