Collectif - Le Monde illustré - 1881

Le Monde illustré - 1881

The two semesters are bound into a thick volume. The year is thus complete.

Le Monde illustré offers a detailed panorama of political, cultural and international news under the Third Republic. A reference illustrated journal, it is distinguished by the richness of its iconography, its reports, its portraits and its chronicles on social, political and artistic life.

The year 1881 was marked by major events: the adoption of laws on freedom of the press in France, the establishment of the French protectorate in Tunisia with the Treaty of Bardo, the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in Russia, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the United States, and the ongoing construction of the Panama Canal.

The work contains numerous illustrations, including some on double pages, caricatures, as well as fold-out panoramas (up to 1 meter long).

1881, 28 x 38 cm, 410 + 410 pages. Half olive leather binding, smooth spine with title and year in gilt. Binding worn. Foxing. Longitudinal crease on the first page. One gathering is detached.