Front cover image for La France comparée a l'Angleterre : lettres sur la constitution de 1852

La France comparée a l'Angleterre : lettres sur la constitution de 1852

Print Book, French, 1863
Troisième édition revue et augmentée View all formats and editions
Librairie d'Amyot, éditeur 8, rue de la Paix, Paris, 1863
Photograph
[9], 8-317, [5] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm (8vo)
1008404078
Bound in France about 1863 in purple morocco; covers panelled in blind with double fillets, and gilt with corner floral ornaments and with the armorial stamp of Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge in gold at the centres; turn-ins gilt with rolls and edges with double fillets; spine with five raised bands panelled in blind with fillets, gilt lettered "Latour du Moulin - Lettres sur la constitution de 1852" and signed by the binder "Gruel"; headcaps gilt with double fillets; headbands; gilt edges; purple watered silk doublures
Donated by Henry J.B. Clements
Final leaf blank
Frontispiece leaf with a photographic portrait of the author "Photoglyptie Lemercier & Cie Paris" pasted down and with the author's signature in facsimile beneath with the imprint, all lithographed
Octavo format
Printer's imprint half-title verso and colophon
Upper flyleaf (doublure verso) with the lithographed bookplate of "Bibliotheca Elseghemensis" signed by the lithographer "Lith. N. Heins. Gand."
Wove papers