Memoirs of Cardinal Dubois : a complete unabridged translation from the French / by Ernest Dowson ; embellished with photogravure portraits of Cardinal Dubois and the Duc d'Orléans, together with twelve full page drawings by Lui Trugo ; in two volumes
1929, 1st Subscription edition. New York : Privately printed for subscribers. Previous owner's inscription. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Front hinge starting. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved set overall. Item #332151
Physical description: 2 v.: ill.; 25 cm. Notes: "This is one of a special edition of 600 numbered copies, for sale in England, of which this is no." With added illustrated t.p.: "The merry tales and amourous adventures of Dubois"
"This edition in two volumes of the Memoirs of Cardinal Dubois, illustrated by Lui Trugo, is limited to fifteen hundred numbered sets, of which six hundred are for sale in England and nine hundred in America. This is set no." Subjects:
Dubois, Guillaume Cardinal. France Court and courtiers. France History Louis XV, 1715-1774.
France History Regency, 1715-1723. Genre:
Autobiography. Illustrated.
Price: €32.00