//Hardcover
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    Hardcover, 217 x 140 mm, bound in quarter vellum over marbled boards, lettering to spine, collated 8vo: π4 1-108 114 (i.e. 88 leaves), pp.: [i-v] vi-viii, [1] 2-168; to front pastedown armorial bookplate “Bibliothèque de Mr de Barante № ___” and pencil inscription “B-183-F”, to rear pastedown bookseller’s ticket “№ 2683”. Title-page: ÉTUDES | SUR LE | SYSTÈME PÉNITENTIAIRE | ET SUR | SON APPLICATION | AU RÉGIME DES PRISONS DE FRANCE | Par M. H. DIARD | PRÉSIDENT HONORAIRE A LA COUR D'APPEL DE RIOM, OFFICIER DE LA LÉGION | D'HONNEUR ET DE L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE, MEMBRE DE LA SECIÉTÉ D'AGRICULTURE, | SCIENCES, ARTS ET BELLES-LETTRES DU DÉPARTEMENT D'INDRE-ET-LOIRE | — | TOURS | IMPRIMERIE LADEVÈZE | Rue Chaude, 6. | — | 1875 || Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Claude Antoine Prosper Félix Brugière, baron de Barante (French, 1851 – 1925). Author: Charles François Hippolyte Diard (French, 1795 – 1877), président à la cour impériale de Riom, Officier de la Légion d'honneur (12 AUG 1869). Printer/publisher: Imprimerie Rouillé-Ladevèze (1834 - 1910). Seller's note: "Rare first edition, rare in commerce. Proposes reforms for the French prison system based on the study of the methods of America and other European countries, including Ireland and England. With a section on the handling of young offenders and agricultural detention centres, like that at Mettray".
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    Hardcover, 184 x 122 mm, burgundy quarter shagreen over marbled boards, binding savagely restored (ex-library copy) with orange paper, handwritten title to spine in black ink with a catalogue number on top, marbled endpapers; half-title and title with library ink stamps, original wrappers not present, frontispiece: death mask of Blanqui etched by Félix Bracquemond del. et sc., imp. Porcabeuf, with protection sheet. Pp.: [2 blanks] [2 - ht/advert.] [2 - blank/frontis.] [2 - t.p. / blank] [2 - dedication/blank] 1-442, 443-4 table, 445-6 afterword by G.G., [2 blanks]. Title-page: GUSTAVE GEFFROY | — | L'ENFERME | AVEC LE MASQUE DE BLANQUI | eau-forte inédite de F. BRACQUEMOND | — | (in rules) DEUXIÈME MILLE | — | PARIS | BIBLIOTHÈQUE CHARPENTIER | EUGÈNE FASQUELLE, ÉDITEUR | 11 RUE DE GRENELLE, 11 | 1897 | Tous droits réservés || For another copy published in 1919, see LIB-3362.2024.
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    Hardcover volume 188 x 125 mm, quarter grey shagreen over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine ruled in double gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved; collated 2 ffl, front wrapper, π4 (blank1, ht/advert.2, blank/frontis., t.p./blank3, dedication/blank4), text 376 χ1, rear wrapper, 2ffl; pp.: [8] [1] 2-446, plus portrait frontispiece. Title-page: GUSTAVE GEFFROY | — | L'ENFERMÉ | AVEC LE MASQUE DE BLANQUI | Eau-forte de Bracquemond | (in rules) CINQUIÈME MILLE | PARIS |  BIBLIOTHÈQUE CHARPENTIER | EUGENE FASJUELLE, ÉDITEUR | 11, RUE DE GRENELLE, 11 | 1919 || For another copy published in 1897, see LIB-2583.2020.