Collectif - Les Cinq Codes / Recueil des Codes de la...

The Five Codes / Collection of the Codes of French Legislation (including the double Penal Code). Paris, Royal Printing, 1816. In-8°, 1,307 pp., 1 volume containing: Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Commercial Code, Code of Criminal Instruction, and Penal Code. Ribbon marker. Contemporary full calf binding, smooth spine richly decorated with gilded fillets, rosettes and scrolls, brown Morocco leather title piece, all edges red and blue. Headcaps and corners adorned. Binding with signs of wear from use, boards rubbed, with losses and wormholes, corners and headcaps rubbed, headcap with a gap, corners softened. Missing title piece. Interior fresh overall, with some classic foxing typical of prints from this period. Solid copy, sewn in its time and intact despite the curiosity of its assembly and the fatigued inner spine. Curious and atypical exemplar presenting a binder’s blunder of the period: the Penal Code is bound twice within the volume. A collation defect turned into an amusing curiosity for bibliographic singularities and the history of old-book craftsmanship. Official edition issued from the presses of the Royal Printing at the start of the Restoration (1816), constituting a precious witness to the continuity and application of modern legislation under Louis XVIII. The importance of this collection in 1816 is paramount, as it materializes the survival and consolidation of Napoleonic legal work (civil, penal, and procedural law unified) at the very heart of the Restoration monarchic regime. Under the Ancien Régime, France was fragmented by a multitude of local customs and conflicting laws (common law in the North and written law in the South). The French Revolution, followed by Napoleon, abolished this complexity to create a unified, egalitarian, codified law. In 1816, under Louis XVIII, the monarchy is back, but pragmatically chooses to preserve the essential Napoleonic legislation. Dimensions (cm): 13.5 x 20.5 x 7 Weight (g): 1,117 Prompt and careful shipment in secure packaging.

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