La Dauphine Marie-Antoinette

Features

Author:  Pierre De Nolhac

Publisher:  Boussod, Valadon et C.ie Editeurs

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1896

Product Condition:
Volume in good condition. Elegant full leather binding: plates framed by gilt fillets with coat of arms and dolphins at the four corners; on spine with 5 raised bands title and friezes with lilies of France and dolphins in gold, inside plates framed by gilt fillets: slight peeling on the edges, light scratches and signs of pressure on the plates, whitish spot on the back plate. Gilded upper cut, traces of dust to the cuts. Papers well preserved, slightly browned, with sporadic foxing and marginal brown spots.

Pages:  (4),181,(3)

Format:  Fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  32
Width:  25

Description

From the Colophon: L'édition original est tirée à mille exemplaires sur papier vélin des Manufactures du Marais. Example no. 704. Pierre de Nolhac, philologist and man of letters, scholar of Italian and European Renaissance philology, became curator of the Versailles Museum in 1892 and wrote several essays on eighteenth-century French history including this historical monograph on Marie Antoinette, illustrated by 39 nt engravings and ft protected by talking tissues, including a splendid watercolor portrait of Marie Antoinette on the frontispiece. Our specimen is embellished with an important contemporary binding and an illustrious provenance: in fact, it comes from the library of the Chateau d'Ermenonville

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