The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials

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ISBN 10: 0812273788 / ISBN 13: 9780812273786

Published by University Of Pennsylvania Press Jan 1966, 1966

About this Item

Neuware - Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press Jan 1966
• Publication Date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812273788
• ISBN 13: 9780812273786
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 279W x 216H x 27D millimeters 279 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1411 grams

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Synopsis

Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure.

William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.

Review

"A magnificent job, meticulous, accurate, and intelligently arranged. . . . An intelligent use of the collection with the catalogue as a supervisor might save the research student a year's work in French libraries."—Times Literary Supplement