Madame Cottin

Mathilde; ou, Mémoires tires de l'histoire des Croisades [Four Volume Set]

Londres: Colburn, 1809. Very Good-. Item #45565

Londres: Chez Colburn, Libraire, Conduit-Street, Bond-Street, 1809. Four volumes; 12mos (17.5cm); contemporary green goat over drab paper-covered boards, gilt spines, all edges marbled. Leather and boards rubbed and worn with extensive exposure at corners, Vol. I with coin-sized loss of paper to upper cover and rear board paper entirely lacking, foxing to preliminaries. Overall a Good to Very Good, sound set with the attractive contemporary armorial ex libris of Susan Mary Anne Wharton to each front pastedown.

A late historical novel by the popular French author Marie Cottin (1770-1807), "Mathilde" is described in the Encyclopedia Britannica as an "extravagant crusading story."

Price: $200.00