Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette to Which Are Added Personal Recollections Illustravtive of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI.

Finely bound example of this personal firsthand account of the French queen’s domestic world written by her first lady-in-waiting. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded photogravure title pages, illustrated with tissue-guarded portraits. In near fine condition. With the memoir of Madame Campan by F. Barriere. Introduction and notes by J. Holland Rose.