[GRAVURES]. Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la Révolution française. À Paris, chez Auber et de l'Imprimerie de Pierre Didot l'aîné, 1802. 3 large folio volumes, brown half calf with corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt friezes and tomaison, gilt title on red morocco. Contemporary binding. 4 pp, VI, 36 pp. then from 1 to 272 pp. in vol. 1; from 273 to 580 pp. in vol. 2; 27, 12, 9, 32, 19 pp. and 2 ff.n.ch. in vol. 3. 3 frontispieces engraved by Malapeau and Copia after Alexandre Fragonard, 77 engravings in vol. 1, 75 engravings in vol. II and 59 etched portraits in vol. III. Rubbing, boards scratched, paper missing from the first board of volume II, corners and edges worn, discreet restoration to the headpieces, a few small brown spots and foxing in the margins, a double flyleaf at the end of volume III. Boards in very good condition, interiors fresh. First collective edition of this impressive collection of engravings, first published in 112 issues between 1791 and 1796. These tables give a chronology of the events that marked the French Revolution, each illustrated by an engraving and accompanied by a speech, by Fauché, Chamfort and Ginguené for the first 25 issues, and by Pagès for the remainder. The first volume contains the nine Preliminary Discourses, from 1787 to 1789, and 68 Historical Discourses; the second volume covers the following years, up to the memorable Day of 18 Brumaire An VIII; the third volume, whose frontispiece depicts the tableau des Droits de l'Homme, is composed of the Five Constitutions that have governed France since 1791. The illustration, engraved in intaglio, includes : 3 frontispieces engraved by Malapeau and Copia after Alexandre Fragonard, 152 hors-texte engravings after Jean-Louis Prieur, Jacques François Joseph Swebach, Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, Abraham Girardet, Nicolas-Marie Ozanne, Alexandre Fragonard and Jean Desaulx (including the plate of assignats which occupies two leaves) and 59 attractive portraits by Charles François Gabriel Le Vachez in medallions accompanied by etching vignettes, mostly by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux. Inserted between certain pages of text in Volume I are leaves with old handwritten notes relating to the work. The set bears the engraved bookplate of Victoris de Watterville on the flyleaf. A solid copy, complete in 3 volumes, of "the most important commercial series of event engravings on the French Revolution" (Musée de la Révolution française - Domaine de Vizille, 2002.