Mangin

Bugnet, Charles

Mangin

Par le lieutenant-colonel Charles Bugnet

Paris

Librairie Plon, Les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit

Not identified

Typographie Plon, 8 rue Garancière

1934

Paris: Librairie Plon, Les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, 1934

French

The edition includes a special issue of 25 copies on papier pur fil des papeteries Lafuma, à Voiron, numbered from 1 to 25; the described copy shows no visible numbering or identifiable watermark

331 pages

10 hors texte engravings and 4 maps within the text; portrait frontispiece

22 cm; large octavo

22 cm

Not verified from the supplied images

Good-quality interwar paper; hors texte plates printed on separate coated glossy paper; limitation leaf indicating partial special issue on papier pur fil Lafuma

No visible watermarks detectable by transmitted light in the supplied images

French serif typography; sharp printing

Half leather binding with corners

Black and dark violet tones

Spine with gilt tools and gilt-stamped title; decorated endpapers

Smooth black leather spine with gilt fillets and title “Mangin”

Military biography of General Charles Mangin, a prominent figure of the French army during the First World War. The work traces his education, colonial campaigns, actions at Verdun, Chemin-des-Dames and occupation of the Rhineland, presenting him as a French national hero

French military biography published during the interwar period

Illustrated edition with portrait frontispiece and maps

Includes table of contents at the end of the volume

The hors texte illustrations are printed on glossy coated paper separate from the paper of the text block

Non-publisher’s period binding

Contemporary French military history

First World War; French army; colonial campaigns; Verdun; Chemin-des-Dames; military biographies; French nationalism

1293

Good; solid binding; foxing and scattered old stains on the first leaves

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Preserves all illustrations and maps announced on the title page; complete copy