Secret memoirs of the royal family of france during the revolution: with original and authentic anecdotes of contemporary sovereigns and other distinguished personages of that eventful period published from the journal letters and conversations of the princess lamballe...
London.
H. S. Nichols & Co., 1895.
8vo.
Limited edition of 500 copies. In two volumes. xii, 307, [1]; xi, [1], 332pp. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a trifle sunned. Contemporary armorial bookplates of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to both FEPs, occasional spotting/browning.
A history of the decline of the monarchy during the French Revolution taken from the personal correspondence of Marie Therese Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792), the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette executed in the September Massacres.
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 21724
