In a fitted box. Cream with brown Paris rooftops image cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Fine copy in publisher’s slipcase. First Folio Society Edition. Publisher’s Bookmark Laid-in. Eleven Contemporary Black and White Illustrations. THE SIEGE OF PARIS LASTING FROM SEPTEMBER 19, 1870 TO JANUARY 28, 1871, AND THE CONSEQUENT CAPTURE OF THE CITY BY PRUSSIAN FORCES, LED TO FRENCH DEFEAT IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE AS WELL AS THE PARIS COMMUNE. THE PARIS COMMUNE WAS AN INSURRECTION OF PARIS AGAINST THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING IN THE WAKE OF FRANCE’S DEFEAT IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF NAPOLEON II’S SECOND EMPIRE , 1852-1870. THE COMMUNE LASTED FROM MARCH 18 TO MAY 28, 1871.