GAUTIER, Hippolyte. The Year 1789. Events, manners, ideas, works and characters. Published in Paris by Charles Delagrave in 1889]. Fort volume In-4. Red half-chagrin with corners, bordered with double gilt fillet, spine with false-nerves underlined by gilt stippling, boxes with double gilt fillets richly decorated in grotesque style, author and title in gilt lettering, gilt headband. 804 pages, 650 copperplate reproductions of vignettes, prints and paintings of the period, including 1 frontispiece engraved by Dambrun after Moreau le jeune, 99 hors-texte plates, one colored map of France. Engraved title vignette, headbands, lettering and endpapers. Rubbing, corners and some cuts bared. First edition of this richly illustrated study of the events of 1789. The first part covers the period preceding the Estates General, with chapters on the King, Marie-Antoinette and the last days of the parliaments, unrest in Dauphiné, Brittany and Provence, the war on privileges and the revolution in theaters. The second part deals with the Great Events: The Fourth Order, the opening of the Estates General and the formation of the National Assembly, the Jeu de Paume Oath, the storming of the Bastille, the King's submission and the end of feudalism, the Declaration of Rights, the Versailles Days... Elegant decorative copy, very clean inside.