MEMOIRS OF THE COMTESSE DU BARRY

St. Dunstan Society, Akron, OH, 1903.  Hard cover, 445 pages.  Leather over boards, front board and spine illustrated, gilt lettering.  Edge wear, corners and spine ends worn; boards protected with clear covering.  Binding cracked at FEP, headbands; top edge gilt; ribbon book mark bound in.  Marbled end papers; small damp stain in upper gutter of FEP.  Black & white frontis with tissue guard intact; interior clean and unmarked; illustrations and printed tissue guards present.  ‘Memoirs and Secret Chronicles of the Courts of Europe.  Illustrated with Photogravures on Japan Velum, Autographs, Seals, Hand Painted Reproductions of Famous Paintings and Full Page Portraits’ (from coloured first page).  Memoirs of Jeanne Du Barry, Comtesse, and her time at court as the favourite of Louis XV.