Brepols - Harvey Miller 2013. Hardcover. 720 p., 54 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503536828. This book offers an elaborative examination of Aubin-Louis Millin?s Antiquites Nationales, a collection of dissertations describing the history of individual buildings and monuments that were threatened by vandalism during the early years of the French Revolution. Cet ouvrage a gagne la premiere medaille du concours des Antiquites de la France (avril 2014). This is the story of a book, a book about a book. The Antiquites nationales constitute, to say the least, an enigmatic publication. Written at the time of the French Revolution, by an author who had until then been known principally for his works on natural history, it is a book about which very little is known. A series of sixty-one dissertations of varying lengths, gathered into five volumes, describes and relates the history of individual buildings or monuments which were, according to the author, threatened by the waves of vandalism occurring in France during the early years of the French Revolution. Neither the circumstances of the book?s writing nor of its printing and marketing are easily elucidated, and the very form in which it was issued is one that requires careful investigation by a bibliographer. A careful collation of the Antiquites reveals that the traditional book form was subtly modified in an attempt to allow readers better to appropriate it for themselves. ...

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