P. Mongie Ainé

Second edition of the french translation.

Some light foxing.

Contemporary full mottled calf bindings, smooth spines richly gilt with typographical ornaments, slight rubbing to the joints, red morocco title and volume labels, gilt rolls to the headcaps, sides framed with a gilt floral dentelle, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dotted edges, marbled edges.

Gay 368 : "On y trouve l'extrait du voyage de Picard qui se rendit à Fouta Tora ; cette relation ne se rencontre pas ailleurs". 

First editions of these three works by Madame Campan uniformly bound. One portrait frontispiece to the memoirs and a second to the Journal. This journal, called anecdotal, is composed of recollections from numerous conversations with Henriette Campan (Napoleon frequently appears) and unpublished correspondence with her son. In her book on the education of young girls, the treatise is followed by several exemplary theatrical pieces, modeled on those of Madame de Genlis.
Half red Russia leather binding with long grain. Smooth spine decorated with 3 fleurons, thick fillets and a roulette at tail. Red paper boards with long grain. Traces of rubbing. Skinning along the lower joint of volume 1. 10 corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing. Handsome set.
Appointed lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie-Antoinette, after having been reader to the daughters of Louis XV, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan passed into posterity for her Memoirs, which remain historical testimony on the court in the time of Louis XVI. Close to the queen, her confidante, she allows us to penetrate in a singular manner into her intimacy, notably regarding the famous affair of the queen's necklace. She remained at Versailles for more than two decades. Narrowly escaping the Terror during the French Revolution, she founded in 1794 an institution for young girls that would become famous in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where the daughters of high nobility would pass through. In 1807, Napoleon placed her by imperial decree at the head of the educational establishment of the Legion of Honor at Ecouen, where she devoted herself to training future teachers, with the wish to make Ecouen a university for women.
Rare set of Madame Campan's works in uniform binding.