8vo. Limited edition of 500 copies. xii, 282pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a trifle sunned. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning.

The private memoirs of Louis XV (1710-1774), as related by the lady's maid of Madame de Pompadour, his mistress. The French King's ineffectual rule contributed to the decline of royal authority that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.