The Story of Marie-Antoinette

by Fine Binding - Cosway style, Anna L. Bicknell

$5,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition. Octavo 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 212 x 146 mm. . i -xiv, 2 , 334, 2, blank pp, twenty-seven photogravure plates. Bound ca 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a central gilt design surrounding a fine oval hand-painted portrait miniature of Marie-Antoinette 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm. ,

• Binding: Leather

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