Red cloth cover with white decoration and title. Four glossy illustration pages. Hinges and binding are fine. Minimal shelf wear.
"The action of the following romance takes place principally in Paris at that period of the French Revolution when the smouldering hostility which, from the year 1789, had been testified against Royalty, and Royalism had at last broken into open flame, and when the Reign of Terror was introduced by the massacres of the Swiss Guard and the massacres in the prisons--and notably inthose La Force and L'Abbaye"