30 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED PLATES
The Life of Maximilien Robespierre; with extracts from his unpublished correspondence.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1849.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
First edition. With 30 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATIONS. xii, 391 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 30 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED PLATES. Full red morocco gilt by Root & Son, with rainbow-colored silk endbands, and the boards decorated in a geometric pattern with floral accents, a.e.g. Spine slightly faded; in slipcase.
Item #267729
With this biography, Lewes (famous partner of George Eliot) is credited for the first treatment of Robespierre “without histeria”. He stated in the preface that his intention was to bring together scattered facts, thus presenting “a view of the separate phases in the career of a remarkable man”.
The extra plates here include portraits of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Danton, Montesquieu, Madame de Stael, Charlotte Corday, Napoleon, and of course Robespierre himself.
