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Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure.William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
Preface-Martin WolfeFrench Revolution Collections-John H. JensenCollector and Collection-John H. JensenA Summary of the Catalogue by VolumeThe Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary LiteratureA Note on the IndexesIndex of DeputiesIndex of Authors (Not Deputies)Index of Committees and Commissions
"A magnificent job, meticulous, accurate, and intelligently arranged. . . . An intelligent use of the collection with the catalogue as a supervisor might save the research student a year's work in French libraries." (Times Literary Supplement)
