Beauharnais, Hortense de LIVRE D'ART DE LA REINE HORTENSE, UNE VISITE A AUGSBOURG, ESQUISSE BIOGRAPHIQUE, LETTRES, DESSINS ET MUSIQUE, PARIS: HEUGEL & CIE, [C.1860] The de-luxe edition, 53 leaves (ff [4], 23 pages, ff.[37]), oblong folio (c.27 x 38cm), lithographed additional title: 'Album Artistique de la Reine Hortense' (bearing her arms), dedication to Napoleon III printed in gold, each page within a gilt border, lithographed portrait of Hortense, 7 chromo-lithographed decorative titles (one heightened in gold), texts in blue and in black, 6 plates lithographed after paintings by Hortense, 24 pages of music, contemporary velvet-covered green quarter morocco, gilt-stamped arms of Queen Hortense to covers, [Olivier 2654 (2)], extremities rubbed, foxing to the music, not affecting the plates, some staining to margins, lower hinge broken [Hirsch, iii 846
Beauharnais, Hortense de LIVRE D'ART DE LA REINE HORTENSE, UNE VISITE A AUGSBOURG, ESQUISSE BIOGRAPHIQUE, LETTRES, DESSINS ET MUSIQUE, PARIS: HEUGEL & CIE, [C.1860] The de-luxe edition, 53 leaves (ff [4], 23 pages, ff.[37]), oblong folio (c.27 x 38cm), lithographed additional title: 'Album Artistique de la Reine Hortense' (bearing her arms), dedication to Napoleon III printed in gold, each page within a gilt border, lithographed portrait of Hortense, 7 chromo-lithographed decorative titles (one heightened in gold), texts in blue and in black, 6 plates lithographed after paintings by Hortense, 24 pages of music, contemporary velvet-covered green quarter morocco, gilt-stamped arms of Queen Hortense to covers, [Olivier 2654 (2)], extremities rubbed, foxing to the music, not affecting the plates, some staining to margins, lower hinge broken [Hirsch, iii 846
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