Revolution D'Angleterre: Charles 1er

Revolution D'Angleterre: Charles 1er

Philarète Chasles, book's author

Paris: Madame ve Louis Janet, Libraire

1844

1st edition

Megan Lepak researched and wrote the event description in 2018.

For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.

History

SPECIAL DA395 .C52 1844

French, book's contents
English, event description

This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Lobby Display Collection.
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the “Event Photographs” Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05446 and here [Photograph of Books] 05447.

This book is also featured in our Damaged Books digital exhibit. To see that record, please use this link: Revolution d'Angleterre.
This book is included in a video in our Damaged Books digital exhibit: Want a little spaghetti with your Don Quixote?

Transcription of event description:

REVOLUTION D'ANGLETERRE CHARLES 1ER | PHILARETE CHASLES | PARIS: MADAME VE LOUIS JANET, LIBRARIE | 1844 | 1ST EDITION

This book’s brown cloth covers are elaborately blind stamped with heavy gilt in the middle of architectural designs and symbols or emblems. The content is the same on the back but in miniature and simplified form. The back cover has been damaged by water, but the gilt appears unaffected. The spine also has a great deal of gilt work, which depicts a niche for a statue with a central pointed arch, typical of the period discussed in the book. The architectural designs reflect the Gothic Revival of the mid-19th century.

Despite this book being a French publication, it is about the ill-fated Charles I, who was beheaded by his own people as part of the English Civil War. He was Catholic and after the birth of his son, the British Parliament and Oliver Cromwell created a legal reason to execute their king to keep the country Protestant. On the front cover there are several symbols that hint at the content of this book, including: the depiction of armored figures, helmets, swords, arrows, shields, and a mace.

The interior of the book features a frontispiece and other assorted steel engraved images. There are numerous plates, leaves, and frontispiece illustrations, all featuring lines to render the shading, shape, and texture of the image. Tissue guards are used to protect the more ink-heavy images. Many of these illustrations depict prominent figures in European history during the period discussed in the book. Illustrations (vignettes) at the beginning of chapters offer a picture to match the contents.

Book / Unpublished Print Document