A History of Private Life, Complete in Five Volumes

SUPERB: BRILLIANT: MILESTONE: LUCID: ARRESTING: ORIGINAL: MASTERPIECE: AS-NEW COMPLETE 5-vol set, First Edition as Complete Set (Orig. Belknap 1991) All First Printings except Volume I: 1987 (3rd). Volume II: 1988, Volume III: 1989, Volume IV: 1990 , Volume V: 1991, Volumes I-V: 1987-1991), FINE mylar-protected jackets w/ full-color front-panels BUT w/ "micro-chipping" at a few spine-caps, NEW quarter-black-linen over linen-over-board color covers w/ NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gold-stamped on spine panels, EXCELLENT NEW unmarked & unblemished text-block exteriors, NEW perfect bindings w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interiors handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished semi-gloss finish archival paper * ABOUT THE FIVE-VOLUME SET: The product of the most advanced late 20th century French academic scholarship, this brilliant, abundantly illustrated series has become a milestone in historical research. Written & edited by leading scholars & lucidly accessible to any reader who wishes to investigate how people lived & behaved, who people were in earlier times, their thoughts, their feelings, their bodies, their attitudes, their habits & habitations, their codes, their marks, their signs. These volumes cover the development of the private domain over twenty centuries w/ each time & culture imprinting its own definition of "private life". The volumes examine the legal definition of privacy, the relationship between the private domain & the state, the dialectics of privacy & intimacy. The fields of investigation include the household, family feeling, affective & sexual relationships, & attitudes toward birth & death. The unequaled sweep & depth of erudition of these volumes is a tribute to founding members of the Annales school of history (including the late Philippe Ariés & Georges Duby, the original editors of the series) as well as the endeavors of brilliant scholars who have tracked-down images of private life wherever they could be found, on the parchment of texts, the silk or homespun of garments & the stones of dwellings. * VOLUME I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, edited by Paul Veyne, 7.25" x 9.25" X 1.34", 1.48 kg, xi+670 (681) pp., 100s of b-w illustrations, insert of 17 full-color plates, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. "This first volume is one of the most arresting, original & rewarding historical surveys to be published in many years." -Bernard Knox, The Atlantic * VOLUME II: Revelations of the Feudal World: From Feudal Europe to the Renaissance, edited by Georges Duby, 7.25" x 9.25" x 1.48", 1.46 kg, 650 pp., 100s of b-w illustrations, insert of 16 full-color plates, bibliography, credits, index. "A heady bouillabaisse of historical topics, takes the readers into the secret chambers of emerging Europe." Patrick J. Geary, NYTBR * VOLUME III: Passions of the Renaissance: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, edited by Roger Chartier, 7.25" x 9.25" x 1.44", 1.42 kg, 645 pp., 100s of b-w illustrations, insert of 16 full-color plates, notes, bibliography, credits, index. "Opulent, the lovingly documented & sumptuously illustrated birth of an age seen from the vantage point of its imminent demise, traces how the modern concepts of individual privacy, inner life & the nuclear family emerged from the tribal surveillance of the Middle Ages." -Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune * VOLUME IV: From the French Revolution to the Great War, edited by Michelle Perrot, 7.25" x 9.25" x 1.56", 1.56 kg, 713 pp., 100s of b-w illustrations, insert of 16 full-color plates, notes, bibliography, credits, index * VOLUME V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times: From the First World War to Our Times, edited by Antoine Prost & Gérard Vincent, 7.25" x 9.25" x 1.46, 1.40 kg, 630 pp., 100s of b-w illustrations, insert of 12 full-color plates, notes, bibliography, credits, index * FIVE-VOLUME SET, COMPLETE: 7.25" x 9.25" x 7.28", 7.32 kg, 3,319 pp * FREE SHIPPING via USPS MEDIA MAIL w/ Domestic PRIORITY MAIL available for a $25.00 fee.…