The Private Life of Louis XIV

Riviere binding. Full dark blue calf, gilt ruled boards, banded spine with gilt tooling and lettering. All edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelle. Marbled endpapers. A few unobtrusive scuffs, spine and top quarter inch of boards sunned. Translated by Paul Morin. From the series Love Lives of the Great. Collector’s Edition on Utopian Laid Paper, limited to 500 copies, of which this is numbered 218. 12mo, 189 pp., publisher’s ad [1]. Near Fine.