Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black paper over boards, xvii, 737pp, epilogue, appendix, bibiography, index, illus. with 19 plates. It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in.....