Les origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution. Tome III: Le gouvernement révolutionnaire

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1279
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893
Title
Les origines de la France contemporaine. La Révolution. Tome III: Le gouvernement révolutionnaire
Statement of responsibility
Par H. Taine, de l’Académie Française
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Series
Les origines de la France contemporaine
Printer
Imprimerie Lahure
Date
1885
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1885
Language
French
Tirage
Not identified; standard late nineteenth-century edition
2. Physical description
Collation
635 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
23 cm; large octavo
Dimensions
23 cm
Typographic signatures
Tome III; III-1
Paper type
Good-quality industrial laid paper; slight oxidation and marginal spotting
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
French roman typography; sharp and uniform printing; wide margins
3. Binding
Binding type
Contemporary half leather binding with corners
Colours
Dark brown and marbled paper in red, cream, yellow, green and black tones
Decoration
Gilt tools on spine; decorated compartments; gilt top edges
Spine
Brown leather spine with gilt title and numbering; five decorated raised bands
4. Content
Content description
Third volume of the section devoted to La Révolution within Les origines de la France contemporaine. Analyses the establishment and consolidation of the French revolutionary government, Jacobinism, centralisation of power, the Terror and the political and social consequences of the French Revolution. Fundamental work of nineteenth-century French political historiography
5. General notes
Note 1
Fundamental historical and political work of nineteenth-century French conservative thought
Note 2
Copy corresponding to volume III: Le gouvernement révolutionnaire
Note 3
Preserves quality period binding with gilt decoration
Note 4
Contains artistic bookplate with quotation from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Note 5
The bookplate appears to correspond to an unidentified Anglo-Saxon private library
6. Subjects
Main subject
French Revolution and political history of France
Subsubjects
Jacobinism; Revolutionary Terror; state centralisation; French historiography; conservative political thought; revolutionary government; eighteenth-century France; criticism of revolutionary absolutism
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1279
Condition
Very good; solid and elegant binding; clean interiors with scattered oxidation spotting
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis; antique bookplate from unidentified Anglo-Saxon private collection
Copy notes
Copy with high-quality decorative marbled paper; illustrated bookplate with landscape and literary quotation attributed to Omar Khayyám