HANDSOMELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED SET ON FRENCH ROYALTY AND COURT LIFE
JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte. Works. Paris and Boston: Grolier Society, [circa 1900]. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, deckle edges.
Large Paper Edition, number 531 of 1000 copies, beautifully illustrated with portrait frontispieces (some colored) and 98 additional plates.
With portraits of Anne Boleyn, Catherine de’ Medici, Rubens, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV, Talleyrand, Madame de Stael, Napoleon, Empress Josephine, Lafayette, etc. Lady Jackson’s histories of French royalty and court life include: Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons; The Old Regime: Court, Salons and Theatres; The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century; The Last of the Valois, and Accession of Henry of Navarre; The First of the Bourbons; The French Court and Society: Reign of Louis XVI and First Empire; and The Court of the Tuileries, From the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Phillipe.
Fine condition, handsomely bound and illustrated.