Beschreibung:

circa 16,3 x 10,3 cm., 119 pp.. Blue marocco with amply gilded spine, covers, inner covers, fore-edges, decorated endpapers (signed: Chatelin; made around 1900) Edition "tirée à très-petit nombre uniquement sur ce papier (vergé)". Elegant little imprint with the memoirs of the duchesse de Brancas about the life and times of Louis XV. - Here in a very decorative signed binding by Chatelin. - Very minor browning, only the white endpapers with slight foxing, else clean inside. Armorial bookplate of Bela Graf Kalnoky (1839-1880) and inscription of his library in the castle at Prödlitz / Brodek in Moravia. Fore-edges and nerfs to the spine slightly rubbed but still very elegant signed binding.