[1901] L'Invasion Le Siège La Commune

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition.

Bound in the original publisher's red half morocco with red cloth boards.

In the original French.

Profusely illustrated with black-and-white in-text illustrations, photographs and caricatures.

Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library.

From significant French art critic and historian Armand Dayot. Following his 1896 La Révolution française, an illustrated account of the 1789 French revolution, Dayot published a number of elegant illustrated works on the history of France, this L'Invasion Le Siège La Commune centering on the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War.