Hard cover, 8vo., in publisher's brown stamped cloth with title in gilt to spine. 361 pp. plus 3 pp. adverts. In English. Small inscription in old ink to ffep. This is a scarce to market title, penned near the end of the career of this popular historian. Author Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) is well known for her books on the French court in the 16th and 17th centuries. Here, she chronicles the stormy relations between the Empress Josephine and Napoleon, conveyed with no small amount of melodrama. Condition: Very Good. Sutherland, p 488.
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