Description
SECRET COURT MEMOIRS. Complete in 20 volumes. Comprised of 2 subsets, in 2 distinct bindings, as shown in the pictures. Some generalized usage wear. The leather is still supple. All hinges attached. Two different binding styles, which means that this set was compiled from two different sets. Each subset is complete in ten volumes, twenty volumes total. The limitation number is different for each set. Large heavy books. These are the highest quality leather bindings. These are the original bindings. Edition de Grand Luxe (Being one of only 1000 sets). Magnificently bound in half red crushed morocco over marbled boards, spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt borders on covers, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Profusely illustrated with tissue-protected plates. No date (c. 1904). The first complete ten-volume set includes: (A) Secret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin, or The Character of the King of Prussia, his Ministers, Mistresses, Generals, Courtiers, Favourites, and the Royal Family of Prussia, by Count Mirabeau (two volumes, 16 plates); (B) Secret Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud in a Series of Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London (two volumes, 16 plates); (C) Secret Memoirs of the Court of the Empress Josephine, with Anecdotes of the Courts of Navarre and Malmaison, by Madame Ducrest (three volumes, 25 plates); (D) Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and the Regency, by the Duchesse d'Orleans, Mother of the Regent (one volume, nine plates); (E) Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI taken from the Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and from the Journal of The Princess Lamballe (two volumes, 16 plates).An extremely handsome set. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 2132 OOTREV
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