Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. * Lavishly illustrated throughout in color & in b-w w/ many full page plates in full color * Told in the inimitably charming & vivid narrative voice of Nancy Mitford, this fine book offers a classic & perceptive account of the life & rise of Louis XV's mistress, the pretty, intelligent & kindhearted bourgeoise Madame de Pompadour, who w/ her monarch maintained France as the artistic & intellectual center of Europe. Madame de Pompadour - Ebook written by Nancy Mitford. end-papers on heavy stock, pristine interior handsomely printed on excellent semi- gloss-coated paper * 7.64" x 10.25" x 0.96", 1.08 kg, 304 pp. Very good to near fine hardcover, no jacket, handsome silk-finish British-green linen-over-boards cover w/ slightest fraying at bottom spine-cap & bottom corners & otherwise excellent edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine & Pompadour crest gold-stamped on front panel, excellent smooth-cut text-block exterior w/ top-edge stained pale lavender, excellent sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ green & white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, unblemished illus.
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