Les origines de la France contemporaine. L’Ancien Régime

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1276
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893
Title
Les origines de la France contemporaine. L’Ancien Régime
Statement of responsibility
Par H. Taine, de l’Académie Française
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Collection
Les origines de la France contemporaine
Printer
Imprimerie A. Lahure
Date
1887
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 79 boulevard Saint-Germain, 1887
Language
French
Print run
Fifteenth edition; no indication of special issue observed
2. Physical description
Collation
Text with preface, table of contents and main body; pagination not fully verified
Illustrations
None
Format
In-8º
Dimensions
Not determined
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial laid paper; slight oxidation and scattered foxing
Watermarks
Not observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
French roman typography; clear letterpress printing with perceptible relief
3. Binding
Binding type
Period half-leather binding with corners
Colours
Dark brown with polychrome marbled boards
Decoration
Gilt tooling on the spine; gilt title labels; decorative marbled endpapers
Spine
Raised-band spine with gilt titles and ornamentation
4. Content
Content description
Historical and political essay devoted to the study of the French Ancien Régime within the series Les origines de la France contemporaine. It analyses the social, administrative and political structure preceding the French Revolution
5. General notes
Note 1
Fifteenth edition of one of Hippolyte Taine’s most influential historical works
Note 2
Copy preserved in careful decorative period binding
Note 3
Includes printed dedication to the archivists and librarians of the Bibliothèque Nationale and Archives Nationales
Note 4
Printed by A. Lahure, important Parisian printer of the nineteenth century
Note 5
Complete and properly preserved copy
6. Subjects
Main subject
History of France; Ancien Régime
Subtopics
French Revolution; French social structure; nobility; state administration; political history; French historical thought
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1276
Condition
Good; solid and well-preserved binding; interior with scattered oxidation and slight signs of use
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Manuscript number “298” on title page; manuscript note “600” on preliminary page