Le Drame de Varennes, Juin 1791

by LENOTRE, G

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Paris: Perrin, 1905. First edition. One of 160 special copies. Octavo. Illustrated and extra-illustrated with the addition of fifty-three inserted portraits and views, inlaid to sized and placed appropriately. Handsomely bound by the Adams Bindery (gilt-signed on front turn-in) in full pebbled red morocco, owner's monogram on front, gilt paneled, lettered and decorated spine compartments, gilt turn-ns, marbled pink endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Some joint wear but a clean and attractive copy. Housed in a red silk slipcase. Extra-illustrated with a wide variety of plates, including a fine English engraving of the capture of Louis XVI and the royal family while they were trying to escape via Varennes, and several folding plates depicting similar historical occurrences; and interesting mezzotint of Louis XVII as a boy, inscribed by the artist; an aquatint of the Place Vendome in 1789; engraved folding plates of Versailles and the Tuileries; portraits of royals and revolutionaries, and so on. Put together with a fine sense of history.

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