The history of the French Revolution. / By M. A. Thiers. Translated, with notes and illustrations from the most authentic sources, by Frederick Shoberl. In five volumes.
Marie-Joseph-Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1838
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249896
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v., plates : ill. ; 8vo. Booksellers' pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "5 vols £2-10-0" and (in a different hand, erased): "5 Vols". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spines; green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'History of the French Revolution.'; red morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Vol. I[-V].' and 'Thiers.'; marbled textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper versos: 'Phillipson & Golder. Chester.'.
Makers and roles
Marie-Joseph-Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), author Frederick Shoberl, translator