Les nobles et les vilains du temps passé, ou recherches critiques sur la noblesse et les usurpations nobiliaires

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 121
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Chassant, Alphonse, 1808-1907
Title
Les nobles et les vilains du temps passé, ou recherches critiques sur la noblesse et les usurpations nobiliaires
Statement of responsibility
Par Alphonse Chassant
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Chez Aug. Aubry, Libraire, Rue Dauphine, 16
Printer
Not stated
Date
1857
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Chez Aug. Aubry, Libraire, Rue Dauphine, 16, 1857
Language
French
Tirage
Limited edition of 600 copies according to the colophon; 574 copies on laid paper; 18 on vellum paper; 4 on yellow paper and 4 on light blue paper
2. Physical description
Collation
295 pages
Illustrations
Engraved frontispiece; typographic ornamental vignettes; final cul-de-lampe
Format
22 cm; large octavo (8vo)
Dimensions
22 cm
Paper type
High-quality laid paper; edition partially printed on special papers according to the colophon
Watermarks
Laid pattern visible under transmitted light; no identifiable watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
French serif typography; carefully printed in black and red with ornamental composition
3. Binding
Binding type
Full leather binding
Colours
Dark red
Decoration
Covers with triple gilt fillet; spine with raised bands and gilt tools; gilt edges; marbled endpapers
Spine
Spine with decorated raised bands and gilt title
4. Content
Content description
Historical and critical essay on the French nobility, noble usurpations and the transformations of social distinction in France, with an erudite and documentary approach characteristic of Second Empire historiography
5. General notes
Note 1
French edition published during the Second Empire
Note 2
Includes engraved frontispiece signed “Lacoste jeune sc.”
Note 3
Title page printed in black and red with typographic publisher’s device
Note 4
Contains table of contents at the end of the volume
Note 5
Later luxury binding of notable quality with gilt edges
6. Subjects
Main subject
French social history
Subsubjects
Nobility; heraldry; nobiliary criticism; social mobility; French Second Empire; genealogy
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
121
Condition
Good; solid and decorative binding; foxing and scattered dampstains on several inner leaves; slight rubbing to the leather
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves heraldic bookplate “Abbatia Janduriarum”; old manuscript numbering on endpaper; complete copy with gilt edges and marbled endpapers