MARIE ANTOINETTE The Dauphine. From the French of Pierre de Nolhac.
Pp. [iv]+192(last blank), printed in red & black, coloured frontispiece portrait, plus 2 sepia and 26 black & white plates (one double page) and 10 pictorial head & tailpieces, all with lettered tissue guards, publisher's device at centre of title page; roy. 4to; handsomely bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly in full green morocco, the spine decorated in gilt compartments featuring coronets, fleurs de lis and Marie Antoinette's monogram between raised bands, the boards with single gilt rule border, the coat of arms of Marie Antoinette in gilt at centre of upper board, gilt edges, boards faintly scuffed; t.e.g.; ribbon marker; dentelles ruled in gilt with fleurs de lis at two corners, binder's gilt stamp at foot of upper pastedown; short split to bottom edge of first tissue guard and pp. 115/6, scattered light foxing; Goupil & Co./Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., Paris/ London, 1897. First English edition. *First published in French by Boussod, Valadon et cie, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, with the date of that edition (1896) incorporated in the binding of this copy at foot of spine. Pierre de Nolhac (1859-1936) became curator of the Museum in the Palace of Versailles in 1892 and founded the chair of art history within the Ecole due Louvre in 1910. He wrote several books about Marie Antoinette and played a major role in restoring the collections at Versailles, including the furniture, which had been dispersed during the Revolution. Item #184346
Price: $1,500.00