CONSTANT (Benjamin). Set of 7 plates by Benjamin Constant. 7 works in 7 volumes in-8, red half-maroquin with long grain, two with corners, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed (Alix). This set, bound by Alix, includes the following titles: - De la force du gouvernement actuel de la France et de la nécessité de s'rallier y. S.l., 1796. - In-8, 197x120: 111 pp. First edition of this important text in which Benjamin Constant defends the society born of the Revolution and praises the republican regime resulting from the Convention. This copy is enriched with old handwritten notes, including remarks by Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (1751-1824). - De la doctrine politique, qui peut réunir les partis en France. Paris: Delaunay, January 1817. - In-8, 193x125: 43 pp, (1 f.). "Second revised and corrected edition" of this text constituting a response to Chateaubriand's Monarchie selon la Charte. Copy complete with last leaf containing a postscript explaining a sentence in the work that could give an ambiguous meaning. Bound in the following pages: the title and two warning pages of Constant's work Des motifs qui ont dicté le nouveau projet de loi sur les élections (1820), followed by a modern photocopy of the author's letter A MM. les électeurs du Département de la Sarthe (3 pp.). - Des élections prochaines. Paris: Plancher, Delaunay, Hubert, 1817. - In-8, 212x133: (2 ff.), 64 pp. mute cover. First edition. "In this pamphlet published in 1817, Benjamin Constant seeks to distinguish the different profiles of candidates in the forthcoming legislative elections. He argues that, more than ever, the electorate needs to send to the Assembly defenders of liberties and the constitution" (Institut Coppet). - Éloge de sir Samuel Romilly, prononcé à l'Athénée royal de Paris, Le 26 décembre 1818. Paris: F. Béchet aîné; Bruxelles: Lecharlier, Demat, 1819. - In-8, 212x130: (2 ff.), 74 pp. (1 f. blank), mute cover. First edition of this eulogy of English politician Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), delivered at the Lycée de l'Athénée Royal in Paris. - De la dissolution de la chambre des députés, et des résultats que cette dissolution peut avoir pour la nation, le gouvernement et le ministère. Paris: Béchet aîné; Rouen: Béchet fils, 1820. - In-8, 200x130: (2 ff.), 67 pp. First edition. Some scattered foxing. - Lettre à M. le Marquis de Latour-Maubourg, ministre de la guerre, Sur ce qui s'est passé à Saumur les 7 et 8 Octobre 1820. Paris: Béchet aîné; Rouen: Béchet fils, 1820. - In-8, 205x130: 22 pp, (1 f.), mute cover. First edition of this political letter, recounting the events that took place in October 1820 while he was visiting a notable named Hurault in Saumur, whose house was surrounded by cadets shouting "vive le Roi! mort aux libéraux et à Benjamin Constant". - Commentary on Filangieri's work. Paris: P. Dufart, 1822. - In-8, 215x135: (2 ff.), 111 pp. printed cover. First edition of the first part of Benjamin Constant's commentary on the Neapolitan jurist Gaetano Filangieri's (1753-1788) Scienza della legislazione, published from 1780 to 1791. Another, more extensive part was published in 1824. A little-known and long-neglected work, it is nevertheless one of Constant's most significant political texts. Copy complete with both covers.