Les origines de la France contemporaine. Le régime moderne. Tome I

Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

Les origines de la France contemporaine. Le régime moderne. Tome I

Par H. Taine, de l’Académie Française

Paris

Librairie Hachette et Cie

Les origines de la France contemporaine

Imprimerie de la Librairie Hachette et Cie

1891

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 79 boulevard Saint-Germain, 1891

French

Not identified; standard late nineteenth-century edition

V, 437 pages; table des matières

None

23 cm; large octavo

23 cm

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Nineteenth-century industrial paper; abundant oxidation and foxing

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French serif typography; sharp and well-preserved printing

Deluxe full leather binding

Dark garnet leather and marbled paper in brown and black tones

Gilt tools on spine; handmade marbled endpapers

Spine with raised bands; gilt titles and rules

First volume of Le régime moderne within the series Les origines de la France contemporaine. Work devoted to the historical and political study of contemporary France, with particular attention to Napoléon Bonaparte, administrative organisation and French social evolution after the Revolution and the Empire

Fundamental historiographical work by Hippolyte Taine

Copy with printed dedication to the archivists and librarians of the Bibliothèque Nationale and Archives Nationales

Preserves artistic bookplate with quotation from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Corresponds to volume I of Le régime moderne, originally published in two volumes

Copy in high-quality decorative full leather binding

Contemporary history of France

Napoléon Bonaparte; French administration; nineteenth-century French society; French historiography; modern state

1280

Good; solid and elegant binding; abundant foxing throughout the paper

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Copy in full leather with handmade marbled endpapers