De la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 583
Author
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, 1689-1755
Title
De la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence
Statement of responsibility
Par Montesquieu; suivis des réflexions sur les divers génies du peuple romain par Saint-Évremont
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs
Collection
Not identified
Printer
Imprimerie Garnier Frères
Date
1882
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1882
Language
French
Print run
Not identified
Collation
448 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
20 cm; octavo (8º)
Dimensions
20 cm
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial paper; slight oxidation and abundant scattered dampstains
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman typography; clean and homogeneous printing
Binding type
Period half-leather binding
Colours
Red and dark brown
Decoration
Spine with raised bands and gilt fillets; black title labels with gilt lettering; marbled endpapers
Spine
Dark brown leather spine with gilt tooling and title “Grandeur des Romains”
Content description
Nineteenth-century edition of Montesquieu’s celebrated historical and political work on the causes of the greatness and decline of the Roman Empire. Also includes complementary texts by Saint-Évremont on the political and military genius of the Roman people
Note 1
Classical work of French political philosophy and historiography
Note 2
Revised edition collated with reliable texts according to the title page
Note 3
Preserves decorative period binding with marbled endpapers
Note 4
Copy with dampstains and abundant foxing, though without seriously affecting legibility
Note 5
Preserves old bookseller’s stamp on title page
Main subject
History and decline of the Roman Empire
Subtopics
Political philosophy; ancient history; theory of power; republics and empires; French Enlightenment thought; comparative historical analysis
Shelfmark
583
Condition
Good; solid binding; interior with abundant foxing and dampstains
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Decorative marbled endpapers; old bookseller’s stamp on title page