Item #001381 The Bastille...With a Preface By James Breck Perkins. Capt. The Hon. D. Bingham, Denis.
The Bastille...With a Preface By James Breck Perkins
The Bastille...With a Preface By James Breck Perkins
The Bastille...With a Preface By James Breck Perkins
The Bastille...With a Preface By James Breck Perkins

The Bastille...With a Preface By James Breck Perkins

New York: James Pott & Co, 1901. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 12mo [133.35mm x 203.2mm]. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #001381

Two Volumes. Decorative red cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong [1867-1944], her initials stamped in gilt at foot of front covers. T.e.g. Vol. I: [6] 478 p.p. With [15] plates of illustrations, incl. frontis; Vol II:[2] 498 p.p. With [10] plates of illustrations, incl. frontis. Tissue guards. Bookplate of James Scarlet [1848--1920] to front pastedown in both vols. A prominent lawyer from Pennsylvania and Princeton graduate, who once famously represented the state in the Capitol Graft case. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Rear corner at foot of volume two slightly bruised. Some fraying at spine ends. Trimming to pages and rough cut edges. Some sporadic smudges, else a very good copy offering a history of the construction and building of the Bastille, one of France's famous prisons as well as a discussion on prisoners, including the Man in the Iron Mask.

Price: $125.00

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