Item #49940 The Secret Memoirs of The Duchesse d'Abrantes 1784 - 1838. Robert Chantemesse Duchesse Laura d' Abrantes.

The Secret Memoirs of The Duchesse d'Abrantes 1784 - 1838.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. Item #49940

Top inch of front cover and top 4 inches of back cover are sunned. Covers are lightly stained. Corners of boards and edges of spine are lightly rubbed, but binding is tight. Leather is cracked at top inch between front cover and spine. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Full leather with gilt-stamped title and decorations on spine and front cover, 22 cm, 319 pages, with ten illustrations including frontispiece portrait of the author. Text in English translated by Eric Sutton. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding.

Price: $200.00

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