Madame De Pompadour

London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco. Aeg. Fine. 431 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Bound by Zaehnsdorf with 16 full page photogravures with tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black. Madame de Pompadour was no ordinary King's mistress: she was a great political force who made and unmade Ministers, selected ambassadors and appointed generals and conferred pensions. Armorial shield and bookplate of Fowler, inner dentelles, raised bands, spine panels and front covers in large gilt arabesques.