Avec tableau historique et notices par l'un des representants de la Commune de Paris en 1789 et 1790, 4 vol., half-titles, stipple-engraved frontispieces and 200 engraved or stipple-engraved portraits by and/or after Bonneville, light offsetting, some foxing, mostly to vol.1, small tear and hole to index of vol.1 with slight loss to one or two letters, upper hinges of vol.1 & 2 broken, one endpaper loose, nineteenth century morocco-backed boards, spines gilt with revolutionary motifs of fasces, a little worn, [Colas 383], Paris, 1796-1802. Portraits of the leaders of the French Revolution and other notable figures of the time including Washington, Franklin, Lafayette, Pitt, Fox, Paine etc.; sometimes found with additional costume plates.