The French Revolution: A History, in Two Volumes

v, 430; v, 421 pp. Three-quarter leather with marbled paper over boards, gilt titles on spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Two volume set. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The most famous work by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, drawing together numerous sources to provide a detailed picture of the French Revolution. Still considered an authoritative work. The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the course of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793 - 94) and culminates in 1795. A massive undertaking which draws together a wide variety of sources, Carlyle's history - despite the unusual style in which it is written - is considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution.