Lettres Choicies de Mmes de Sévigné, de Grignan, de Simiane,…

Paris: Chez Garnery, Libraire, 1825. 3 volume set, 5 inches tall. A charming full vellum binding from the early 1800's with gilt bands, twin red labels and dense gilt tooling on a smooth back, a gilt roll frames the boards. All edges gilt. Stipple engraved portrait and folding genealogical table. With the inscription 'Anna Jane Pochin, Florence 1828' on the first blank. Madame de Genlis was a novelist and children's educationalist who is best remembered for her letters and journals of the late 18th and early nineteenth century of which this is a fine selection. In the original French.