TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de Oeuvres et Correspondance Inédites d'Alexis de Tocqueville publiées et précédées d'une notice par Gustave de Beaumont. Paris: Michel Lévy Freres. 1861.

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de Oeuvres et Correspondance Inédites d'Alexis de Tocqueville publiées et précédées d'une notice par Gustave de Beaumont. Paris: Michel Lévy Freres. 1861.

Two volumes: [viii], 474; [iv], 503 [1, errata] pp; some water staining in volume 1 and affecting a few leaves of volume 2. Contemporary quarter morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, lower portion of vol. 1 upper board particularly worn. First edition.

With the bookplate in volume 2 of Garcia Huidobro-Gonzalez de Andia Irarrazabal - Guzman y Correa de San, and de M. Gonzalez in manuscript to verso of half-titles.
Includes correspondence with J.S. Mill and N.W. Senior, Gustave de Beaumont (editor of this work), Henry Reeve (of The Times), and Mrs. Harriet Grote (wife of George Grote).
Published posthumously. Alexis Henri Charles Maurice Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville (1805-1859), studied law and, from 1830 to 1835, filled a post in the judicature at Versailles. After a year's mission to the U.S.A., his conclusions were that the trend of history was towards equality and that the future of France and the Western world was bound up with the acceptance of democratic principles.