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CARLYLE, Thomas

The French Revolution: A History

The French Revolution: A History

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1851

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CARLYLE, Thomas.  The French Revolution: A History.  Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1851.  Complete in three volumes. A historical study of the French Revolution from the "sage of Chelsea", Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle.

Each volume inscribed and dated Sep 1874 to front blank by Louisa Baldwin (née Louisa MacDonald), who interestingly tipped in portraits and engravings of key figures in the French Revolution, including of the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette (in Volume 1 on front paste-down and free endpaper), Count of Mirabeau and the Marquis de Lafayette (in Volume 2 to front paste-down and free endpaper), Charlotte Corday who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, Antoine Fouquier-Tinville who was the notorious chief prosecutor of Paris' Revolutionary Tribunal during and after the Reign of Terror, Jean Sylvain Bailly and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (in Volume 3 on front and rear paste-downs, front free endpaper and to page 254). Louisa Baldwin was one of the famous MacDonald sisters, later mother of UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (PM on three occasions), and aunt of Rudyard Kipling.

6 x 4.4 in.  vi, 366; vi, 388; vi, 430pp.  Leatherette binding, gilt ruling and lettering to spines, blind ruling to covers, marbled endpapers.  A good set, with joints very worn and front cover partly detached on vol. 1,  with rubbing to extremities and the slightly discoloured spines, and mild foxing throughout; else complete and securely bound. 

From the Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors - volumes CCIII, CCIV, and CCV. Volume one (The Bastille) begins at the death of Louis XV and details the Paper Age through to the insurrection of women. Volume two (The Constitution) covers the feast of pikes, Varennes, and the actions of Parliament. Volume three (The Guillotine) provides accounts of the Regicide, terror as the order of the day, and finally the battle Vendemiaire. 

Thomas Carlyle was a British essayist, philosopher, and historian considered a leading writer of the Victorian era. His work is said to have exerted a profound influence on the art, literature, and philosophy of the nineteenth century.

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