Joseph II & His Court; an Historical Novel from the German by Adelaide De V. Chaudron

Muhlbach, L. [Luise]; Mundt, Clara; from the German by Adelaide De V. Chaudron

Goetzel; Farrow and Dennett, 1864

4 volumes bound in 1.  First 3 volumes with 7 (of 8) of the original wall paper wrappers.  Titles chipped and soiled. Several margin tears.  Some damp staining to first volume. Rare Confederate and Alabama imprint. Crandall II, 3106.  Parrish 6437. Housed in modern beige cloth clam shell box. 

"Tinted covers printed on wall paper. Printing paper had become so scarce in the South that publishers were obliged to use wall paper." Scott and O'Shaughnessy, p. 36.  "Probably the most extensive purely literary venture undertaken in the Confederate States," Anderson Galleries, 1904.