Description: Hardcover volume bound in red cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine, in a red dustjacket with black lettered, bookplate to front pastedown “ from the library of | DAVID. D. LEVINE | Militaria” in triple fillet frame, bookseller’s label to front fep “CHAS. E. LAURIAT CO. | IMPORTERS & BOOKSELLERS | 385 Wash’n St. Boston”.
Title-page in red and black: MY DAYS OF ADVENTURE | THE FALL OF FRANCE, 1870-71 | BY ERNEST ALFRED VIZETELLY | LE PETIT HOMME ROUGE | AUTHOR OF “THE COURT OF THE TUILERIES 1852-70” ETC. | {publisher’s device} | WITH A FRONTISPIECE | LONDON | CHATTO & WINDUS | 1914 ||
Pagination: [2] advert., [i-vii] viii-xi [xii] [2] contents/blank, [1] 2-337 [338] [2], 340 pages total plus photo frontis.
Collation: [A8] B-Y8 Z2, 170 leaves total plus one leaf of plates.
Provenance: David D. Levine
Contributors:
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (British, 1853 – 1922) – author.
Charles E. Lauriat Company, Booksellers and Importers, Boston, Massachusetts.
Charles Emelius Lauriat, Jr. (American, 1874 – 1937) – collector of rare books and prints
Chatto & Windus (London) – publisher.
David Daniel Levine (Australian, 1944 – 2020) – Australian judge and book collector
Additional Information
| Collection | French history, art, literature , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Period | 20 AD , Early 20th century |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Language | English |
| Media/Technique | Paper , Wove paper |
| Subject | 19th century , France , Franco-Prussian War , French Third Republic , History , Memoirs , Napoléon III [Bonapart, Charles Louis Napoléon] (French, 1808 – 1873) , Paris Commune, 1871 , Siege of Paris (1870–71) |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1914 |
| Binding | Cloth , Dust jacket , Hardcover |
| Acquisition year | 2022 |
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