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    By H. Noel Williams
    London and New York   Harper & Brothers
    11" by 9" xiv, 349pp
    A smart signed limited edition on the life of French socialite of Napoleon's days, illustrated throughout.
    By H. Noel Williams

    1901 Madame Recamier and her Friends

    London and New York   Harper & Brothers
    11" by 9" xiv, 349pp
    A smart signed limited edition on the life of French socialite of Napoleon's days, illustrated throughout.
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    Description

    Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

    Juliette Recamier was a French socialite and the owner of a salon frequented by numerous important French political and literary figures. Her admirers include Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Augustus of Prussia, Jean-Jacques Ampere, and Chateaubriand. 

    Written by Hugh Noel Williams. 

    A limited edition, with six hundred copies produced only, this being No. 199. 

    Signed by the author to the limitations page.

    A contemporary inscription reads, Mrs Sanders, with M. Addlesham's best wishes, Xmas 1901'.

    Illustrated with portraits throughout depicting the contemporaries, admirers of the subject, as well as the subject herself.

    Condition

    In a full cloth binding; rebacked preserving the original boards and spine. Externally generally smart; original cloth is a little worn. Internally, generally firmly bounf. Pages are bright and clean.

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