Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty Cardinal De Retz

Cardinal De Retz

Societe Des Bibliophiles and Merrill & Baker, 1903

Limited Edition #26 of 500. Bound in 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbled end pages. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Front board detaching. Shelf wear. Head of spine chipped. Bookplate of Charles M. Fitzpatrick inside. xv, 304 p., frontispiece, 23 cm. 

Cardinal de Retz was one of the leaders of the aristocratic rebellion known as the Fronde (1648-53), whose memoirs remain a classic of 17th-century French literature.