Mademoiselle de clermont. L'Apostasie, ou la dévote. Le château de kolméras. Le journaliste
by GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Madame de
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About This Item
Londres [i.e. London]: Chez Deboffe, 1802. [2], 275pp, [1]. Contemporary marbled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Foxed. An early London printing (appearing in the same year as the first Parisian edition) of Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis' (1746-1830) fictionalised account of the final days of Marie-Anne de Bourbon-Conde mademoiselle de Clermont (1697-1741), Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine to Marie LeszczyÅska, wife of Louis XV; together with three of her other less well-known short stories. In the same year, publisher Deboffe re-issued the present book as the first of six volumes of stories by Genlis under the general title Nouveaux romans. . 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ19586
- Title
- Mademoiselle de clermont. L'Apostasie, ou la dévote. Le château de kolméras. Le journaliste
- Author
- GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Madame de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chez Deboffe
- Place of Publication
- Londres [i.e. London]
- Date Published
- 1802
- Keywords
- Literature
- Size
- 8vo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...