M Louis Blanc — Histoire de Dix Ans 1830-1840

Paris, Gnerre, 1846. Leather. A five volume set of this historical work. The fifth edition. Complete in five volumes. With 25 full page plates including five frontispieces. Louis Blanc was a French politician and historian. A socialist who favoured reform, he called for the creation of cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the urban poor. This work, first published in 1841, was an attack on the Monarchy of July, a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I starting with the July revolution of 1830 and ending with the revolution of 1848. It began with the overthrow of the conservative government of Charles X and the House of Bourbon and was dominated by wealthy bourgeoisie and numerous former Napoleonic officials. In quarter morocco bindings. Externally, sound with some rubbing. wear to head and tail of spines. Some bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with some patches of foxing. Good . Ill.: None. Good .