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Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III

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Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III

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Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III (2 Volumes, Complete)

By Lascelles Wraxall, Robert Wehrhan (Compilers)

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862

Dimensions: 7 5/8 inches X 4 1/2 inches

306pp; 305pp. Presumed First English Language Edition

Half bound in leather, with marbled paper over boards. Five raised bands to spines, outlined in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt over dark leather label. Previous owner's name to front pastedowns. Green endpapers. Bookseller notations pencilled to flyleaf of Vol. I. Tissue guarded frontispiece of the Queen to Volume I

A very handsomely bound set of these memoirs of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen consort of Holland, daughter of Empress Josephine, stepdaughter of Emperor Napolean I and mother of Emperor Napolean III. Leather bound.

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Condition

Very good. Moderate rubbing to edges and bumped corners of bindings, with scattered rubbing to spines. Brown topstains, with edges of text blocks heavily sprinkled brown. Occasional light foxing to pages, with a couple of neatly pencilled notations, overall bright and clean. Binding is tight and sound.