Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe from the 16th to the 19th Century

with 160 illustrations, including hand-colored frontispieces and photogravure plates throughout, all in double-suite in sepia and Hand-colored. 24 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son Publishers, c 1899. Edition de L'Étoile, Number 80 of 200 numbered copies, printed on Japanese Vellum. Bound in full green morocco, gilt spine with red leather onlays, minor fading and rubbing to spines, with magnificent doublures of green morocco with brown inlaid morocco arabesque design on front and back pastedowns, with moire silk endpapers, a.e.g. by Barrie.

Consists of 'secret memoirs" of Marie Antoinette, Empress Josephine, Henry Swinburne, Marguerite de Valois, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Madame de Montespan, William II of Germany and Francis Joseph, the Courts of St. Petersburg, Austria, St. Cloud, Berlin, Sweden and Denmark and the royal family of France during the Revolution

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