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Title: Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty
Author: ** Description: 19 (of 20) volumes. Colored frontispiece in each volume; additional uncolored plates throughout. (8vo) 8¾x5¾, original full brown morocco, elaborate gilt borders on covers with red fleur-de-lis center and corner devices, spines gilt, top edges gilt. One of 52 sets of the "Edition Magnifique"Includes memoirs of Richelieu, Madame D'Epinay, Fouche, Marmontel, Madame Du Barri, Empress Josephine, Talleyrand, Cardinal de Retz, and Henry IV. Heading: zze(Fine Bindings)Place Published: Paris/London, and New York Publisher: Societe des Bibliophiles/Merrill and Baker Date Published: [c. 1900] Condition reportLacking the third volume of the Memoirs of Richelieu. Spines faded, leather a bit dry, two volumes with front boards detached, some chipping to spine ends, light edge wear; else good.
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