Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume I.
Hardcover
1922 · London / New York
by Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille and H. Vigneau
London / New York: The Alexandrian Society, Inc, 1922. Hardcover. G (Ex-art library, with back pocket and few interior marks; plastic spine label; otherwise of average age overall, with very clean pages.). Black leather-like boards, with lavish gilt decoration on spine and both covers; in light gray-brown dust jacket with mylar cover; 389 pp., one tipped-in plate of author as frontispiece. The first volume only of a two-volume set; and one of the posthumous volumes that make up the memoirs of French soldier and writer Pierre de Bourdeille Brantome (1537-1614). Categorized by some as "erotic literature" for its frankness about intimate relations. #1017 of 1250 copies. Scarce. (Inventory #: 162371)