Saint-Simon. The memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, covering the years 1691-1723. Selected translated & edited by Desmond Flower [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1959.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 994.
Two volumes. Quarto [xxxii], [1]-252, [4, blank] pp. With 17 inserted plates, including a frontispiece, plus an inserted pull-out genealogical table; [xvi], 253-498, [1, blank], [1, signed limitation page] pp. With 15 inserted plates, including a frontispiece, plus an inserted pull-out genealogical table. Publisher's full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decoratively stamped with gilt, top edge stained red. From the library of Rudy Simons, with his bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to rear pastedown of each volume. Both volumes fine with original, sunned and rubbed, dual slipcase.
Newman & Wiche, 297.
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3414
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50