THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY
by CARLYLE, THOMAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: James Fraser, 1837. THREE VOLUMES uniformly bound. Inner dentelles, red endpapers. A SIGNED BINDING by Riviere and Sons. French fillet borders with corner rondelles. Spine decorated in gilt. Gilt lettering has faded but can still be read. Top corners just a bit worn, several lightly bumped. Please see photos. All three half-titles are present. Volume 1 is subtitled, "The Bastille", Volume 2, "The Constitution', and Volume 3, "The Guillotine". One of the greatest treatises written on the french Revolution. See "Printing and the Mind of Man", #304. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish historian, essayist, philosopher in the Victorian era. . First Edition. Lime Green Morocco. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015441
- Title
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY
- Author
- CARLYLE, THOMAS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James Fraser
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
- Size
- Crown Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- French Revolution, French History, Sets
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...