129.00 USD
TITLE: Young Folks' History of France, Illustrated, Subscription Edition
AUTHOR: Charlotte M. Yonge
PUBLISHING DATE: 1879
PUBLISHER: D Lothrop Comapny Boston
This beautiful crafted antique book contains the history of France up until 1871. It is written in a manner meant for young children of the era. The brown cloth boards are beautifully gilded and decorated. Between it's pages are countless intricate illustrations! This book is a true gem!
–DESCRIPTION OF CONDITION–
For it's age this book is in good condition. There is some fraying alone the top of the spine and the boards are a little loose. The back cover has some discoloration. The pages have the tanning and foxing of books from the 1800's. Overall, the text is clear and the illustrations stunning!
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"Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century. Among her admirers were Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Kingsley, Christina Rossetti, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones read The Heir of Redclyffe aloud to each other while undergraduates at Oxford University and "took [the hero, Guy Morville's] medieval tastes and chivalric ideals as presiding elements in the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood." Yonge's work was compared favourably with that of Trollope, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Émile Zola." -Wikipedia