Les origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution. Tome I

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1277
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893
Title
Les origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution. Tome I
Statement of responsibility
Par H. Taine
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Series
Les origines de la France contemporaine
Printer
Typographie Lahure, rue de Fleurus, 9
Date
1878
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1878
Language
French
Tirage
Deuxième édition; no indication of special issue observed
2. Physical description
Collation
[4], approximately 420 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
22 cm; large octavo (8vo)
Dimensions
22 cm
Typographic signatures
Not verified from the supplied images
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial laid paper; slight spotting and occasional oxidation
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman type; sharp and even printing; wide margins
3. Binding
Binding type
Contemporary half leather binding with corners
Colours
Dark brown and marbled paper in red, green, cream and black tones
Decoration
Gilt false raised bands; gilt ornamental tools on spine; peacock marbled endpapers
Spine
Brown leather spine with gilt titles and rules; integrated lettering piece
4. Content
Content description
First volume of the section “La Révolution” from the historical work Les origines de la France contemporaine. Analyses the social, political and economic causes of the French Revolution, the weakening of the Ancien Régime and the rise of revolutionary anarchy. Includes preface, historical development and table of contents
5. General notes
Note 1
Fundamental work of nineteenth-century French historiography
Note 2
Second edition published the same year as the first appearance of the work
Note 3
Copy with elegant period bibliophilic binding
Note 4
Part of the group of volumes devoted to La Révolution within Les origines de la France contemporaine
Note 5
Complete and typographically clean interior
6. Subjects
Main subject
French Revolution
Subsubjects
French Ancien Régime; political history of France; nineteenth-century historiography; social crisis; conservative thought; revolutionary processes
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1277
Condition
Good to very good; solid binding; minor stains and scattered oxidation on some leaves
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Copy in half leather with corners and peacock marbled endpapers; valuation corresponds to the homogeneous set of the three volumes of La Révolution