Histoire de la Révolution française, depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1814. Tome second

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1285
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Mignet, François-Auguste, 1796-1884
Title
Histoire de la Révolution française, depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1814. Tome second
Statement of responsibility
Par F.-A. Mignet, membre de l’Institut, etc.
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Firmin Didot Frères; Dufey et Vézard
Series
Not identified
Printer
Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l’Institut, rue Jacob, nº 24
Date
1836
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, libraires, rue Jacob, nº 24; Dufey et Vézard, libraires, rue des Marais S.-Germain, nº 17, 1836
Language
French
Tirage
Not stated; standard nineteenth-century French edition
Original work
Histoire de la Révolution française, depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1814
Original language
French
Translator
Not applicable
2. Physical description
Collation
366 pages; final index; explanation of plates
Illustrations
Calcographic frontispiece of Napoleon; plates outside the text
Format
Large 8vo
Dimensions
Approximately 21 cm
Typographic signatures
Not verified from the supplied images
Paper type
Laid paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman serif typography; generally good legibility
3. Binding
Binding type
Contemporary half leather binding
Colours
Brown and marbled boards
Decoration
Lettering pieces and gilt tools on the spine
Spine
Brown leather spine with gilt decoration and decorative raised bands
4. Content
Content description
Second volume of François-Auguste Mignet’s historical work devoted to the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814; arranged in chronological chapters and including final index and explanation of historical plates
5. General notes
Note 1
Nineteenth-century French edition published during the author’s lifetime
Note 2
Preserves calcographic frontispiece of Napoleon
Note 3
Copy in homogeneous contemporary binding
Note 4
Contains explanatory index of the historical plates
Note 5
Laid paper visible by transmitted light
6. Subjects
Main subject
French Revolution
Subsubjects
French political history; Napoleon; Revolutionary Terror; nineteenth-century historiography; revolutionary France; French Empire
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1285
Condition
Good; solid binding; rubbing and moderate wear to edges and spine caps; abundant foxing and oxidation stains throughout the volume
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Stamped mark “Ernesto Francoli”