REVOLUTION] - Complete collection of the Tableaux historique - Lot 159

REVOLUTION] - Complete collection of the Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française, consisting of one hundred and thirteen numbers, in three volumes. Paris, Auber, 1804. Printed by Didot Ainé and finished by Charles. 3 vols. in-folio. Half basane, spine ribbed, gilt title. Monumental publication issued in issues. Abundant illustration well completed with 222 plates including 3 frontispieces, 153 plates and 66 portraits. Frontispieces by Alexandre Fragonard and plates by Jean-Louis Prieur, Jacques François Joseph Swebach, Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, Abraham Girardet, Nicolas-Marie Ozanne, Alexandre Fragonard and Jean Desaulx. Volume I: 1 frontispiece, 9 plates introduction, 68 plates. Volume 2: 1 frontispiece, plates numbered from 69 to 144 Plate 123: value of assignats, enhanced in colour. Volume 3: frontispiece, 66 portraits in the manner of the wash by Charles François Gabriel Le Vachez in medallions accompanied by vignettes in etching by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux for the most part. From the Library of Marly. Ex-libris Victorien Sardou.