Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la Révolution Française, : composée de cent treize numéros, en trois volumes ...
Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1804
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3064838.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates ; fol. Bookseller's pencil notes on front free endpaper: "Fine Plates + Portraits 3 vols 12/10/0 Mezzotint Portraits in vol 3". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper verso: 'Grant & Bolton Booksellers, 4, Dame Street, Dublin.'. Binding: Nineteenth-century Russia calf, gilt and blind fillets to form a panel design on boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Tableaux historiques de la Révolution Française Tome I.'; single gilt fillet on board edges; double gilt fillet (thick and thin) on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; deep pink ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794), author Claude Fauchet (1744-1793), author Pierre Louis Ginguené (1748-1816) , author François Xavier Pagès (1745-1802), author