J. M. Thompson — The French Revolution

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1944. Leather. A lovely, full-red-calf edition of this comprehensive history of the French Revolution. Second edition.   Beautifully bound in full red calf.   Featuring eight monochrome plates, including the frontispiece. Collated, complete.   A detailled work on the French Revolution. Written by English historian and theologian James Matthew Thompson, a specialist in the subject, with both Leaders of the French Revolution (1929) and Robespierre and the French Revolution (1952) to his name, along with several texts on religion, poetry and European history.     Beautifully bound in full red calf. Externally, lovely condition with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in minor cracking to front joint, front board remaining firm, further minimal loss of leather to spine and extremities, the odd mark, and more notable sunning, focused towards the spine. Internally, firmly bound. A bright and clean copy with only the odd spot, more common to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .