Author: Challice, A.E.
Title: Memories of French Palaces
Description: London, Bradbury, Evans and Co, 1871. Cloth. Blue cloth with decorations stamped in gilt and black. 352 pp, plus 8 pages of ads in the rear. With 8 illustrated plates, with the Versailles plate bound as the frontispiece. A history of several French palaces, documenting not only the history of the building but chronicling significant events and people associated with them, providing a history of France and its courts. This includes Versailles, St. Germain, the Louvre and the Tuileries, St. Cloud, the Palais Royal, the Elysee, Compiegne, Little Trianon and La Malmaison, and Fontainbleau. GOOD+ condition. Mostly minor scuffing to the coversm with general fading. Spine sunned. Minor soiling. Corners frayed, with light pulling and fraying to the head and tail of the spine. Several ownership signatures on the first endpapers. Text block solid with minor toning to the paper. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Noisbn French Palaces France Fontainebleau Versailles


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