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CARY, Alice and Phoebe.
The Josephine Gallery.
Bennett in his reference on American plate books describes this book thus: "Elaborate lithographed portrait of Empress Josephine in bright colors as frontispiece, other portraits, all having the same fine quality both of drawing & colors of women celebrated during the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic periods."
- Published
- New York: 1859, by Derby & Jackson.
- Plates
- 8
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- New York: 1859, by Derby & Jackson.
- Ref
- 942
8vo. pp. 287. Publisher's blue cloth with highly elaborate gilt spine and decorative boards - all designed in high Victorian style, with embossed lettering and intricate repetitive emblems and motifs. All edges gilt. Extremities slightly worn, some colour plates foxed and spotted, else good. A really fascinating, well-preserved, and wonderfully illustrated mid-19th century biography of Josephine Bonaparte's Royal Court. Inscription to prelim reads "Charlotte A Lane Birthday Gift from her Father, Feb 20th, 1859." Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Josephine. 2. Melle Colombier (Napoleon's First Love). 3. Charlotte Corday. 4. Mme Roland. 5. Mme Tallien. 6. Mme Junot. 7. Pauline Bonaparte. 8. Mlle Lenormand.
