The Female Revolutionary Plutarch : containing biographical, historical and revolutionary sketches, characters and anecdotes - Three volume set
Goldsmith, Lewis - by the author of The Revolutionary Plutarch and Memoirs of Talleyrand
Publication Date
1806
Publisher
John Murray,
Binding
Hardback
Condition
Good+ set
SKU
25570
Notes
Leather bindings are secure though there are some significant splits to hinges. Bumped to corners and a rubbed to edges. Internally secure though the pages are a little dusty. An interesting, attractive and hard to find set in the original edition.
Description
Hardback, full leather bindings. First edition. Presumed written by Lewis Goldsmith (1763-1846) as a companion set to his The Revolutionary Plutarch volumes of 1804, the Female Plutarch covers women of the French Revolution and the early Napoleonic era. the women covered include Joséphine Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe whose portraits are the frontis illustration for each volumes. Other women covered also include Madame de Staël and there are chapters on women’s clubs etc. The author appears a little confused as to whether he is a royalist or a republican as his previous writing history was connected to the Republican movements in France but these volumes have a printed dedication to Marie Antoinette ‘... a lamented victim of the the inhospitable rage and ferocious character of Revolutionary Frenchmen...’. Full leather binding with black labels to spine. Gilt titles to spine with further gilt decorations.
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