Title:  Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta,Archduchess of Austria,Queen of France and Navarre
Author: by Joseph Weber and Translated from the French by R. C. Dallas, Esq.   
 
IN ENGLISH 
 
Published:  London: Printed by C. Rickaby, 1805 - 1812  
 
Volume I: 1805 
Volume II: 1806 
Volume III:  1812 
 
Format: Hardcover 
Book condition:  Used - Good. 
Three volumes. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.
Bookplate (partially removed by previous owner) on front pastedown (inside front cover). Additional owner's name inscribed and dated '36 on front free end paper.  Some foxing (age spots) to pages.  Gilt edges.  
Cover:  Good to Very Good (Near Fine).  
  

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“It was my unhappy fate to see the most powerful queen rendered the most miserable of human beings”:
Weber’s Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, illustrated First Edition in English
 
First edition in English of one of the first biographies of Marie Antoinette, with 12 engraved plates, handsomely bound. 
 
 "As the foster-brother of an archduchess, Joseph Weber benefited all his life; there were pensions for Constance as well as his other brothers and sisters. During Marie Antoinette's childhood, Maria Teresa took her to visit the Weber household; there she showered gifts upon the children and, according to Joseph, admonished Constance: 'Good Weber, have a care for your son'" (Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, 4).

This account of Marie Antoinette's life and death was at least partly authored by Trophime-Gérard, Marquis de Lally-Tollendal.

Illustrated with 12 engraved plates, including frontispiece portraits in each volume. Volumes II and III with half titles. First published in French, in London, 1804. Translated by Robert Charles Dallas. Lowndes 
 
Published: London: Printed by C. Rickaby, 1805 - 1812.
 
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