[FRENCH REVOLUTION] [REIGN OF TERROR] THE ACCUSATION, TRIAL, DEFENCE, SENTENCE, EXECUTION, AND LAST WILL OF LEWIS XVI LATE KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS MAGNANIMOUS BEHAVIOUR FROM THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BRING HIM TO TRIAL AS A TRAITOR, TO HIS LAST AFFECTIONATE INTERVIEW WITH HIS UNFORTUNATE FAMILY . [BOUND WITH] AUTHENTIC TRIAL AT LARGE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL AT PARIS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1793

Verlag: J. Elder, et al. | Chapman and Co, Edinburgh | London, 1793

Beschreibung

8vo. (8 1/2" x 5 3/8"); in half-tan calf over marbled board with morocco label (Trials K & Q of France); [4]. 108 pages, 2 plates as frontispieces; 92 pages, with portrait frontiespiece; the first frontispiece of Louis XVI is hand colored; the second is of a guillotine, with a handy head-catching basket; the second book has a frontispiece of Queen Marie Antoinette; the book is well foxed; the front endpaper has been cut in half vertically; there are two previous owner names on the recto of the frontispiece; lacking the rear endpaper.~~The second of the two titles (Authentic Trial of Marie Antoinette) appears to have been first printed by J. Evans in London the same year as this Chapman imprint. (T80476; T96760). Very Good binding. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 296130

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Titel: [FRENCH REVOLUTION] [REIGN OF TERROR] THE ...

Verlag: J. Elder, et al. | Chapman and Co, Edinburgh | London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1793

Einband: Half Leather

Zustand: Very Good binding

Auflage: First Edition.