Discours de cloture des travaux du congrès de l'Institut Historique, prononcé le 11 octobre 1840 par le Baron Taylor.
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1840. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. [4], 88; handsomely bound in full black morocco stamped in gilt by the French binder Hippolite Duru, with a central crown and monogram (indecipherable to this cataloguer) surrounded by a restrained romantic style border on covers, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, titled in gilt in one and richly decorated in gilt in the others, t.e.g; a little wear to extremities with lower front forecorner revealed, 1/4-inch scrape on front cover repaired, and the front joint cracking but still firm; front and back matter a little foxed, only minor spots of foxing scattered throughout the rest of the text; an attractive copy overall, with the armorial bookplate of William Standish Standish (High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1846) mounted to the front pastedown. Duru has signed the binding with a small stamp on the front flyleaf verso: "H. Duru." Baron Taylor (1789-1879), a French writer, book collector, translator, traveler, and royal administrator of the Thé‚tre Français, "is best known for his Voyages pittoresques et romantiques de l'ancienne France (1820-63)" (Webster's New Biographical Dictionary, p. 974). This title not located in OCLC or NUC. Item #23240
Price: $350.00
