Les Français peints par eux-mêmes : encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curmer, L. (Henri Léon), 1801-1870., Publisher.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France--Social life and customs.

France.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs.

Paris (France).

Costume--France.

Costume.

Physical Description:

8 v. : ill. (part col.), col. plates, port., col. map. ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : L. Curmer, 1840-42.

Notes:

Originally issued in parts (fascicules) 1839-1842. The first three volumes have title-pages without subtitle as originally printed for these three volumes, later reprinted with the subtitle, uniform with the later volumes.

This set lacks the supplementary volume "Le Prisme" issued free to the subscribers, of which no copies with colored illustrations were issued.

Text by Achard, Balzac, Janin, Karr, Nodier, Soulié and many others.

Illustrations (408 plates, 1000 illustrations in the text) by Gavarni, Grandville, Johannot, Meissonnier and others.

The first five volumes deal with general types. The other three [6-8] contain provincial and colonial types and have title: Les Français peints par eux-mêmes; encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle. Province.

For detailed bibliographical description, various issues of certain plates, etc., s̲e̲e̲ Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du xix siècle, t. 3, 1897, col. 793-804.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum has: v. 1-6.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Mrs. Baird Hollingsworth.

OCLC:

4364393