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History of the crusades / by Michaud ... ; illustrated with one hundred grand compositions by Gustave Doré ; engraved by Bellenger, Doms, Gusman, Jonnard, Pannemaker, Pisan, Quesnel ; volume I[-II].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio D157 .M613 1880 Rudolph Doré Collection copy v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michaud, J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.), 1767-1839.
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire des croisades. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rudolph, Robert I., M.D. (donor) (Rudolph Doré Collection of Gustave Doré copy)
- Giese, Carl August, 1861-1939 (autograph) (Rudolph Doré Collection of Gustave Doré copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 38 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : George Barrie publisher, [between 1880 and 1895]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French by William Robson.
- Notes:
- George Barrie published under that name from 1880-1895.
- Fifty illustrative plates in each volume; each plate accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress in red.
- Volume 1 has a vignette portrait of Michaud on the title leaf; volume 2, one of Doré.
- Local Notes:
- Rudolph Doré Collection copy: each volume has a few manuscript marks in pencil in text; volume 2 has manuscript note in pencil on page 169.
- Kislak Center Rudolph Doré Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Robert I. Rudolph, M.D., C’67, M’71, GME’75.
- Rudolph Doré Collection copy: each volume has autograph ("Carl Aug. Giese"), probably of Carl August Giese (1861-1939), on verso of blank leaf following last printed leaf.
- Rudolph Doré Collection copy: each volume bound in half leather over nubbly brown cloth(?); boards double-ruled in gold at borders of leather and cloth(?); title, author, and illustrator stamped in gold and red on left board; spine double-ruled in gold at head and tail; title, a cross, author's surname, illustrator's surname, and volume number stamped in gold on spine; yellow silk doublures; all edges gilt.
- OCLC:
- 1112464829
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