[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. [PAGÈS DE VIXOUSE (François-Xavier)]. Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la Révolution française. Paris, Auber, de l'impr. de Pierre Didot l'aîné, an X - 1802. 3 volumes large in-folio, bradel paperback with pink glue, smooth spine, green morocco labels, untrimmed (period binding). A very fine and important publication offering a vivid and accurate pictorial history of the French Revolution. This work, first published in 1791, went through several revised editions until 1817. The 1802 edition, which Cohen describes as "definitive", gives the text by François-Xavier Pagès de Vixouse (1745-1802) "free of all revolutionary rust". The illustration consists of 215 engraved plates, including : 3 frontispieces by Fragonard fils engraved by Malapeau and Copia; 144 plates for the Tableaux historiques (including two relating to assignats) and 9 in the Discours préliminaires, drawn by Delvaux, Duplessi-Bertaux, Fragonard fils, Ozanne, Prieur and others; and 59 (of 60) fine portraits in medallions engraved by Levachez after Chinard, Gérard and Mme Lebrun, at the bottom of which are charming vignettes by Duplessi-Bertaux. A fresh, untrimmed copy in contemporary boards. One portrait (Lecourbe) is missing. Headbands worn, discreet restorations to the boards, worm gallery in the margin of the false title and frontispiece of volume II, a few rare and light scattered freckles. A folio volume containing only the text of the first 80 tables (pp. 1-320) is included, contemporary paperback, untrimmed; spine missing, spotting in margin of pp. 1-8. Cohen, 969-971 - Tourneux, I, n°282.