Memoires touchant la Vie et les Ecrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Dame de Bourbilly Marquise de Sevigne, Durant la Guerre de Louis XIV contre la Hollande, suivis de Notes et d’eclairoissements par C-A Walckenaer
SEVIGNE, Marquise de
[Edited by C-A. Walckenaer].
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
Published: Didot Freres Paris, 1848
Stock code: 25010
Price: £164.00
8vo., text in French, title lightly spotted; strongly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, backstrip with black leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, compartments ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, fresh copy in sympathetically strengthened period binding.
With the fine nineteenth-century pictorial bookplate of St. Johns Seminary, Wonersh on front pastedown, and small personal book-label on front free endpaper verso. VERY SCARCE.