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DE PULIGA, Henrietta Consuelo, Countess. Madame de Sévigné, her Correspondents and Contemporaries. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.
2 volumes, 8° (212 x 135mm). Half-titles. Folding facsimile autograph manuscript, 3 plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 50 plates, 16 hand-coloured. (?Lacking genealogical table, small repaired tear to margin of final text leaf of volume I.) A Cosway-style binding in 20th-century dark purple morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover of volume I with inset original oval portrait miniature of Madame de Sévigné after A. Sandoz, the miniature surrounded by double-fillet gilt border, the outer border of all covers composed from gilt dots, fillets, dot-roll and cornerpieces of semi-naturalistic sprays of lilies, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat alternate design of a spray of gilt lilies, gilt turn-ins, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
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2 volumes, 8° (212 x 135mm). Half-titles. Folding facsimile autograph manuscript, 3 plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 50 plates, 16 hand-coloured. (?Lacking genealogical table, small repaired tear to margin of final text leaf of volume I.) A Cosway-style binding in 20th-century dark purple morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), upper cover of volume I with inset original oval portrait miniature of Madame de Sévigné after A. Sandoz, the miniature surrounded by double-fillet gilt border, the outer border of all covers composed from gilt dots, fillets, dot-roll and cornerpieces of semi-naturalistic sprays of lilies, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat alternate design of a spray of gilt lilies, gilt turn-ins, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
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