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London.: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1938. xiii, 321pp, with 8 plates. Original blue cloth.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Methuen & Co., 1938. 321pp. Hardback with corner tips slightly bumped, DJ has minor wear along edges and spine darkened, price clipped, index, 8 plates, Biography of French author Madeleine de Scudery, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

London England: Methuen, 1938. Hardback. Previous owners name to inside cover page and flap of D/J. Browning to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. This is a careful yet finely etched and striking portrait of Madeleine de Scudery, that romantic figure who lived to the background of the stirring events during the brillian reigns of Louis XIV and his predecessor. It is the first full-length biography in English of the woman whom M. Jules Romains called ' a portrait painter in words'. Madeleine de Scudery emerges as a fasincating, vital and varied person who was a woman as well as a romantic writer and a precursor of our novelists of Richardson's school. 321 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.

Methuen & co., ltd, 1938T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Methuen & Co. LTD 1938 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket.