Gabriel SÉNAC DE MEILHAN, Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de RETZ
Mémoires d'Anne de Gonzague, Princesse Palatine[Memoirs of Anne de Gonzague, Princess Palatine]
Prault|London • Paris 1789|13.2 x 20 cm|Relié
Second edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Anne de Gonzague, a headpiece and several tailpieces.
These apocryphal memoirs, published anonymously and presented as the work of the princess herself, are attributed to Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan. The text is preceded by the literary portraits of the princess drawn by Cardinal de Retz and by Bossuet, together with a letter by Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé. The work closes with letters presented as being by Anne de Gonzague, followed by an errata leaf.
Contemporary full mottled calf, covers framed in blind, flat spine decorated with gilt double...
€180