Histoire de la Révolution française

New edition from Furne illustrated with 47 figures (Johannot, Raffet, Scheffer) including 27 portraits, and a large folding map of the theater of war at the end of the last volume. Although the edition saw multiple reprints after 1850, all editions from the 1830s, close to the first and to the first illustrated edition, are much rarer. This edition differs from the first illustrated by a greater number of portraits that replaced the suite created by Ary Scheffer, of which a selection is present. At the end, the speech by M. Thiers upon his reception at the Académie française.
Contemporary half-cherry red glazed calf binding. Smooth spine with two Restoration tools, a central mirrored tool, cold and gilt fillets both thick and thin, head and tail rolls. Black calf title and volume labels. Marbled edges echoing the motifs of the pastedowns. Scattered foxing. Traces of rubbing.
Handsome set in contemporary Romantic binding.
Adolphe Thiers, the second president of the French Republic, and the first of the Third Republic after the fall of the Empire, was also a journalist and historian. The History of the French Revolution, published in successive volumes from 1823 to 1827, was praised by Chateaubriand, Sainte-Beuve and Stendhal and achieved great success. It is the first complete history of the French Revolution.