Jean-Gabriel Peltier - Dernier tableau de Paris — Récit de la révolution du 10 août 1792 - 1794

PELTIER (Jean-Gabriel). Last tableau of Paris, or A Historical Account of the Revolution of 10 August 1792. London, at the author’s, Hôtel de la Sablonière, and Elmsly, in the Strand, April 1794. Two octavo volumes, bound publications, 13 × 21 cm approximately. Third edition, revised and corrected. Pagination of the edition: volume I, viii, then 9–258, 86, 117–119 and 47 pages; volume II, 436 pages.

Written in exile by the former journalist of the Acts of the Apostles, this royalist chronicle follows the preparation of the day of 10 August, the attack on the Tuileries, and the fall of the monarchy. The documentation gathered after the narrative goes up to the trial of Louis XVI: the list of votes in the Convention thus prolongs the story of the revolutionary day.

Copy in two volumes with orange covers. Two engraved portraits and a folding plan are visible; the list relating to the nominal call of 16 January 1793 is preserved following the second volume. Same address and same month of publication as in the Godrans auction catalog, lot 463. Martin and Walter, 26721.

Condition: dampstains and some tears at the margins, including one on the title of Volume I.