De l'Esprit des Lois (often translated as The Spirit of Laws) is an influential political philosophy treatise by Montesquieu.
Bibliographic notesDe l'Esprit des Lois was first published anonymously in French in 1748, with the title spelled "De l'Esprit des Loix". The first English translation was published in 1750. It has been published in many other editions and translations since.
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De l'Esprit des Loix (4 volumes in French; 1769-1784), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Spirit of Laws ("with corrections and additions communicated by the author"; 2 volumes; Printed for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent (page images at HathiTrust). The first English edition.
- The Spirit of Laws ("with corrections and additions communicated by the author"; 2 volumes; Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing and G. Faulkner, 1751), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Spirit of Laws (second edition "corrected and considerably improved"; 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1752), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Spirit of Laws (10th edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for S. Crowder et al., 1773), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Spirit of Laws (2 volumes; Glasgow: Printed by D. Niven for J. Duncan and Son, et al., 1793), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Spirit of Laws (2 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896-1897), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by J. V. Prichard, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- Spirito delle Leggi del Signore di Montesquieu, Con Note dell' Abate Antonio Genovesi (4 volumes in Italian; Naples: G. Reale, 1820), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, contrib. by Antonio Genovesi and Jean Le Rond d' Alembert
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