Physical description

The Book is part of a 25 volume set with red cloth bindings and gold filigree design to rib.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Flyleaf has the title with Edited by Henry Smith Williams L.L.D. In twenty five volumes-Vol. XII and London “The Times” 1908 in Gothic script

Summary

Henry Smith Williams’ “The Historians' History of the World” is a chronological and geographical "tapestry" of human events, these twenty five volumes occupy a very specific and prestigious place in historical research. This volume continues on with the history of France. The primary focus of Volume 12 is the continuation of the history of France from 1715 to 1815. This century is arguably the most trans formative in French history, and the volume meticulously documents the transition from absolute monarchy to revolutionary chaos and, finally, to the Napoleonic Empire.