[REVOLUTIONS of 1848] DELVAU, Alfred (ed)

Les Murailles Révolutionnaires de 1848. Décrets, Bulletins de la République, Adhésions, Affiches, Fac-Simile de Signatures, Prodfessions de Foi, Etc. Précedée d'une Preface d'Alfred Delvau. Seizième Édition, Illustrée de Portraits.... [2 vols]

Paris: E. Picard, [1868]. Sixth, expanded edition. Two quarto volumes; original morocco-backed cloth over boards; 480+552,xxxii pp; 10 unnumbered leaves of plates (portraits); text illustrations printed in colors. Unobtrusive rippling to endpapers; faint foxing to prelims; mild external rubbing – a complete, clean, and attractive set.

Essential reference to the printed street propaganda of the 1848 Revolution in France, including broadsides, posters, proclamations, etc; with hundreds of examples illustrated, reproduced in their original colors. This edition includes portraits of a number of the movement's main protagonists – Louis-Philippe, Proudhon, Louis Blanc, etc. Delvau's preface to this edition is dated at its conclusion, 1868. Not an uncommon set, but seldom found in the U.S.

Price: $300.00

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