Sophie Arnould. Actress and Wit

by Robert B. Douglas

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 272, 4 pp. 3/4 red leather over red cloth, with gold-stamped lettering and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Title-page in red and black lettering, with engraved vignette. Fascinating biography on the most famous French operatic soprano and actress of the 18th century. Her legendary beauty

• Binding: Hardcover

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