Author: Cary, Alice & Phoebe Cary, editors.
Title: The Josephine Gallery.
Description: New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. 0. Hardcover. Large octavo. 287pp. First edition. Green morocco, heavily decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. With eight full-page colored lithographic portraits by J. Champagne. The lithographs represent Josephine, Mlle Columbier, Charlotte Corday, Mme Roland, Mme Tallien, Mme Junot, Pauline Bonaparte, & Mlle Lenormand. Bennett in his reference on American plate books describes this book thus: "Elaborate lithographed portrait of Empress Josephine in bright colors as frontispiece, other portraits, all having the same fine quality both of drawing & colors of women celebrated during the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic periods." Good.

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