Souvenirs de madame de Caylus

New edition printed on laid paper and expanded with an introduction and notes by Charles Asselineau.
Full midnight blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double compartments richly ornamented with typographical corner motifs and a gilt fleur-de-lys at their centers, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt rolls on headcaps, triple gilt fillet frames on boards ornamented at corners with gilt fleur-de-lys, gilt rolls on pastedowns, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, double gilt fillets on leading edges, original wrappers preserved, all edges gilt, magnificent English binding signed by Hardy.
Work illustrated with a portrait of madame de Caylus as frontispiece as well as 4 figures engraved on steel by Leman.
Our copy is complete with the second state of the 5 illustrations.
Provenance: from the library of the comte de Cromer with his fine armorial bookplate engraved by J.F. Badeley and mounted on a pastedown.
Fine copy superbly bound in an English full morocco binding.