A Journal of the Terror
( FRENCH REVOLUTION ) CLERY, Msr., Abbe, FIRMONT
Being an Account of the Occurrences in the Temple during the Confinement of Louis XVI, by M. Clery the King's valet-de-chambre, together with a Description of the last Hours of the King. Edited by Sidney Scott.
NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Published: Folio Society, 1955 [1961]
Stock code: 23222
Price: £30.00
8vo., with frontispiece and plates; blue buckram, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, red top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
The binding is based on that of a copy of Theocritus bound for Marie-Antoinette in 1792 and bearing her arms.