Lettres écrites à un provincial

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 0579
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Title
Lettres écrites à un provincial
Statement of responsibility
By Blaise Pascal; preceded by the Histoire des Lettres provinciales after the 1754 edition and literary observations by François de Neufchateau
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs
Printer
Imprimerie Charles Blot, 7 rue Bleue
Date
19th century
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 6 rue des Saints-Pères, 6; Imprimerie Charles Blot, 7 rue Bleue, 19th century
Original language
French
Language
French
Edition/tirage
No special tirage stated
2. Physical description
Collation
XI, approximately 403 pages
Illustrations
None
Maps
None
Format
Octavo approx.
Dimensions
Approximately 18 cm
Paper type
Industrial wove ivory-toned paper
Watermarks
No visible watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
Typographic printing with French serif type; good overall impression; preserves final index and printer colophon
3. Binding
Binding type
Later half-leather binding with corners
Colours
Red and dark burgundy
Decoration
Boards covered with marbled paper; raised bands and gilt rules on spine
Spine
Burgundy leather spine with gilt title; partially detached from the front board, with visible wear along the hinge
Endpapers
Polychrome marbled paper
Edges
Ungilt edges
4. Content
Content description
Edition of Pascal’s Provinciales preceded by a historical and literary study; fundamental text of the seventeenth-century French Jansenist controversy; includes detailed table of contents and preliminary observations
5. General notes
Note 1
French popular edition from the late nineteenth century probably intended for literary and religious circulation
Note 2
Preserves complete final index
Note 3
Later decorative binding affected by partial detachment of the spine from the front board
Note 4
Paper with light oxidation and scattered age spotting
Note 5
Apparently complete copy according to supplied images
6. Subjects
Main subject
Jansenism
Subsubjects
French religious literature; theological controversy; French philosophy; apologetics; religious history; Pascal
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
0579
Condition
Fair to good overall condition; clean interior with usual light oxidation; spine partially detached from the front board; visible hinge fatigue; spine gilt preserved
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Copy in later burgundy half-leather binding with decorative marbled endpapers; visible separation between the spine and the front board