PRUDHOMME, Louis-Marie. Révolutions de Paris, dédiées à la N - Lot 246

PRUDHOMME, Louis-Marie. Révolutions de Paris, dédiées à la Nation et au district des Petits-Augustins. Set of 32 issues. Published in Paris by Imprimerie des Révolutions between 1789 and 1791. 3 volumes in-8, brown basane, smooth spines, two volumes decorated with fleurons and gilt title on burgundy leather, one volume decorated with lyre motifs in gilt irons and gilt title on black leather. Contemporary binding. Approx. 600 pages per volume, with a total of 28 black hors-texte engravings, some of them folding. Overall rubbed, missing headpieces and three slight chips to spines, jaws partially split on one volume. Minor spotting. Important collection of this famous revolutionary weekly written mainly by Prudhomme and a few associates, including Tournon, Loustalot, Sylvain Maréchal, Fabre d'Eglantine. Each volume is illustrated with numerous engravings depicting emblematic scenes of the Revolutionary period. The 3-volume set breaks down as follows: - 1st volume: Introduction à la révolution servant de préliminaire aux Révolutions de Paris, published in 1790 (72 pages), followed by numbers 1 to 8 of the Paris Revolutions and a table of contents, all illustrated with 19 engravings. - 2nd volume: Numbers 53 to 64 of Révolutions de Paris dedicated to the nation and the district of the petits augustins (Second year, fifth quarter), published in Paris in 1790. 684 pages, with 3 hors-texte engravings, followed by 12 pages of table of contents. Handwritten bookplate of Charles Michault on front flyleaf. - 3rd volume: N°92 to 103 des Révolutions de Paris (Troisième année de la liberté française, huitième trimestre), Paris, 1791. 688 pages and 20 pages of table of contents, with 6 engravings. Prudhomme bookplate stamped on titles. A fine sample of this famous weekly, which gives, according to Hatin, "the most complete, accurate and impartial picture of the unrest in the capital during the first and most dramatic years of the Revolution". Worn but solid, with clean interiors.