12mo. [10], 516pp, [12]. Recent blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Very minor wear to extremities. Recent bookplate and ink shelf marks of the Bath Municipal Reference Library to front endpapers, with their occasional embossed stamps throughout, coloured pencil annotation and spots of soiling to title, else a crisp copy.

A revised second English edition, translated by Robert Wolley, of French scholar Nicolas Besongne's (d.1697) L’estat de la France. Originally published in 1661, the work details the cultural and political state of nation in the latter half the seventeenth century; a period which saw the domination of Cardinal Mazarin and lengthy conflict with the Spanish Empire. The first English edition appeared in 1671.