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A popular history of France : from the earliest times

Title: A popular history of France : from the earliest times / by M. Guizot ; with 300 illustrations by A. de Neuville ; translated by Robert Black.
Author: Guizot, François, 1787-1874.
Publication: Boston : C.F. Jewett Pub. Co., [187-]

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Guizot, F. Popular history of France) 02-67	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Description

60 pts. (6 v.) : ill., map, ports.; 26 cm.

Subject

Note

Each part (no.) in the original illustrated dark pink paper covers, as issued. Title page and other preliminaries to v. 1 in pt. 9; to v. 2 in pt. 17. Prospectus on p. [4] of covers.
"The work will be issued in 60 parts ... and when complete will make six ... volumes. It will contain three hundred and fifty ... illustrations and forty ... steel line engravings"--P. [4] of covers.
Translation of: L'histoire de France depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789.
Vol. 5 was completed from Guizot's notes by his daughter, Mme. de Witt.
Vol. 1: 418 p., [45] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: 412 p., [42] leaves of plates; v. 3: 383 p., [43] leaves of plates; v. 4: 448 p., [49] leaves of plates; v. 5: 392 p., p. 457-584+, [50+] leaves of plates; v. 6: 72 p., p. 121-264+, [18+] leaves of plates.
"Extract from letter to the publishers," (v. 1, p. 8) dated Dec. 1869.
Illustrations: 27+ prints : steel engraving ; full-page. By W. Wellstood, F. Delannoy and others, after T. Allom, G. Staal and others. Most have name of publisher: Estes and Lauriat, Boston. -- 219+ prints : wood engraving ; full-page. By C. Laplante, H. Hildibrand and others, after A. de Neuville. -- 1 print : engraving, hand col. ; double-page. Map.

Call Number

Arents BIP (Guizot, F. Popular history of France) 02-67

Author

Guizot, François, 1787-1874.

Title

A popular history of France : from the earliest times / by M. Guizot ; with 300 illustrations by A. de Neuville ; translated by Robert Black.

Imprint

Boston : C.F. Jewett Pub. Co., [187-]

Local Note

Arents copy incomplete. Parts 41, 45, 46, 48 and 52-60 wanting; pt. marked 48 contains pages for pt. 51; pt. 40 in duplicate.

Arents copy partly unopened.

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Added Author

Witt, Madame de, 1929-1908.

Black, Robert, 1830?-1915.

Neuville, Alphonse Marie de, 1835-1885. Illustrator

Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872. Illustrator

Staal, Gustave, 1817-1882. Illustrator

Wellstood, William, 1819-1900. Engraver

Delannoy, Ferdinand, approximately 1822-approximately 1887. Engraver

Laplante, Charles, -1903. Wood engraver

Hildibrand, Henri Théophile. Wood engraver

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Guizot, F. Popular history of France) 02-67