Portraits of the Seventeenth Century. History and Literary. Volume II. by C.A. Sainte-Beuve

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Good. 1904. First Edition. 461 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white central illustration to front board. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to gutters. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Front hinge is cracked. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration. Gilt lettering is darkened.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press. Contains Part one and Two in one volume. An original illustrated 1904 vintage edition with the neat portraitures through-out. The jacket is protected in an archival sleeve. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1904.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1905. 461 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth.Ex-libris copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964. hardcover. near fine/very good. Two volumes. Translated by Katherine Wormeley. Illustrated in black and white. 464 and 446 pages. 8vos, yellow cloth, dust wrappers. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishers, (1964). Wrappers lightly edge-worn, previous owner's signature on flyleaf; a near fine copy in very good wrappers.<br/><br/>

New York: Putnam, 1904. hardcover. Book: Good. 8vo.. 461 pp. 5 7/8 x 9. Blue cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on front and spine. Gilt top edge. Light wear. No dj.

G.P. Putnam's Sons. HARDCOVER. 1/1/1904. 002518 :Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley with 32 illustrations. Part I is 461 pages and Part II is 443 pages all in one volume. Minor edge wear and cover rubs, front hinge visible, no writing or marks . Used - Good.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in boards as issued with very slight edgewear and some age-toning.

New York / London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. VG. Colored marbled paper over boards; Brown cloth at corners and spines; Matching marbled endpapers; 461 pp. (vol. I), 443 pp. (vol. II); 18 bw plates, (vol. I), 14 bw plates (vol. II). Twenty-eight biographical sketches of figures such as Cardinal de Richelieu, Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon, Marie-Madeleine de la Vergne, Louis XIV, Moliere, Blaise Pascal, Racine, Comte Antoine Hamilton, and others.