Beschrijving
Original publisher’s dark-blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering on white spine, gilt ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, folio: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, 384pp., 500 illustrations [400 in colour], epilogue, catalogue raisonné, notes, charts, bibliography, index. CONTENTS: 1. The Bourbon Monarchy [to 1789]. 2. The Revolution [1789-1799]. 3. The Napoleonic Era [1799-1815]. 4. The Restoration of the Monarchy [1814-1830]. 5. The July Monarchy [1830-1848]. 6. The Second Republic and Second Empire [1848-1870]. 7. The Third Republic [1870-1914]. 8. The Third Republic [1914-1939]. 10. Into the Present [from 1945]. In slipcase.Very fine copy – as new.