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1917 Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette
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Description
Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed
A limited edition of five hundred and five copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and forty nine.
Signed by the publisher to the limitation of Volume I.
An insightful biography on the life of Marie Antoinette, written by her premiere femme de chambre, Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan.
Campan worked for Marie from her marriage to Louis XVI in 1770, up to the storming of the Tuileries in 1792.
In this biography, Campan offers a personal account of Marie's life, a valuable source of information of the period.
Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece, and ten plates.
Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates.
Volume III is illustrated with a frontispiece, and eight plates.
Collated, complete.
With a memoir of the author by F. Barriere, and an introduction and notes by J. Holland Rose. This edition was revised by F. M. Graves.
Bookplate of Harold and Helen Oxbury to the front paste downs.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Minor rubbing to the joints and extremities. Spines are discoloured. A few light marks and very light rubbing to the boards. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots.
Very Good
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