The Spirit of Laws: Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. With corrections and additions communicated by the author
Authors of source text
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron La Brède and Montesquieu
Contributions
- Anonymous (Thomas Nugent)
- translator
- John Nourse
- publisher
- Paul Vaillant
- publisher
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Notes
Montesquieu's seminal work of political theory went through numerous editions and reprints. Nugent's name was added to a "corrected and considerably improved" 2nd edition in 1752, which also included a long translator's preface.
There was a sixth edition, "carefully revised and improved from the last Paris edition" in 1793, which was published in London: F. Wingrave, Edinburgh: T. Ruddiman, and Glasgow: J. Duncan & son, J. & M. Robertson. Further reissues appeared in 1794 (P. Dodsley & R. Owen), 1797 (Glasgow: J.Duncan & son), 1800 (Vernor & Hood), 1802 (the 1st US ed. in Worcester, Mass: Isaiah Thomas) and 1803.
Nugent's translation was still being reprinted at the end of the nineteenth century, often with d'Alembert's analysis.