Les origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution. Tome II: La conquête jacobine

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1278
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893
Title
Les origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution. Tome II: La conquête jacobine
Statement of responsibility
Par H. Taine
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Collection
Les origines de la France contemporaine
Printer
Typographie Lahure, rue de Fleurus, 9
Date
1881
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1881
Language
French
Print run
Sixth edition; no indication of special issue observed
2. Physical description
Collation
480 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
22 cm; large octavo (8º)
Dimensions
22 cm
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial laid paper; slight oxidation and scattered foxing
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
French roman typography; clean and homogeneous letterpress printing
3. Binding
Binding type
Period half-leather binding with corners
Colours
Garnet and polychrome marbled paper
Decoration
Gilt tooling on the spine; false raised bands; peacock-style marbled endpapers
Spine
Garnet leather spine with gilt titles and ornamentation
4. Content
Content description
Second volume of the “La Révolution” section within Les origines de la France contemporaine. Analyses the Jacobin conquest and the consolidation of revolutionary power during the French Revolution
5. General notes
Note 1
Fundamental work of nineteenth-century French historiography
Note 2
Sixth edition published during the author’s lifetime
Note 3
Copy in homogeneous decorative period binding
Note 4
Part of the three-volume set devoted to “La Révolution”
Note 5
Preserves earlier decorative ex libris with quotation inspired by Omar Khayyam
6. Subjects
Main subject
French Revolution
Subtopics
Jacobinism; political history of France; revolutionary crisis; French historiography; Ancien Régime; revolutionary processes
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1278
Condition
Good; solid and well-preserved binding; interior with moderate foxing and usual oxidation
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Polychrome marbled endpapers; gilt decoration on spine well preserved