Almanach des aristocrates, ou, Chronologie épigrammatique des apôtres l'Assemblée nationale.

Format:

Book

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Genre:

History.

Satirical literature.

Physical Description:

[6], iij-xxiv, [12], 203, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Almanach des aristocrates

Chronologie épigrammatique des apôtres l'Assemblée nationale

Fingerprint:

der. s.es x; e, NoDe (3) 1791 (Q)

Place of Publication:

A Rome : [publisher not identified], l'an III de la Barnavocratie [1791?]

Summary:

Royalist satire on the events of the French Revolution during 1789-1790.

Notes:

"La Barnavocratie" in imprint refers to Antoine Barnave (1761-1793), elected a Deputy of the Third Estate in the Estates-General of 1789.

Signatures: a¹²(a1+pi²) A-H¹² I⁶.

Engraved illustrations (plates)

Type ornament headpiece.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center RBC 2026 142 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2026 from Musinsky Rare Books. Binding: full contemporary roan[?]; boards triple-ruled in gold; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped brown leather spine label ("ALMANACH DES ARISTOCRAT"); decorative endpapers; blue silk marker; all edges stippled red and gilt. Bookseller's description removed, 2026.

OCLC:

11014146