The Court of The Tuileries From the Restoration to The Flight of Louis Philippe… In Two Volumes. (Riviere Binding)

The Court of The Tuileries From the Restoration to The Flight of Louis Philippe… In Two Volumes. (Riviere Binding)

8vo. (5.5" x 7.75")1883. Lady Jackson, Catherine Charlotte. London. Richard Bently & Son 2 volumes. Riviere Binding. Full green leather. Spine with ive raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, gilt author/vol# to third, others with large gilt fluer-di-lis centered to each compartment, fancy gilt to head and foot of spine. Spine sun-darkened to a pleasing brown (see pic). Top edge gilt, burgundy endpapers, wide leather turn-ins with gilt fluer-di-lis to corners, gilt "Bound by Riviere..." to foot, amorial bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker centered to front pastedown, gilt rule to board edges. Illustrated with two engraved portrait frontispieces and seven full page engravings. Title page in red and black ink. Embossed library stamp of New England Conservatory of Music to title page, affecting text. Edgewear, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, original flexible covers and spine bound at rear. A beautiful set of books.

From Wiki: Lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Elliott Jackson (1824–1891), published the diaries and letters of her husband Sir George Jackson (1785–1861) and was a prolific author in her own right, especially in the area of European history and of the court of France in the 16th century. She was the daughter of Thomas Elliot of Wakefield. She married the Knight Diplomat Sir George Jackson (1785–1861) on St Helena in 1856 as his second wife. He was a distinguished diplomat and is best known for accompanying Sir Charles Stuart to Germany and entering Paris with him in 1815, and for his efforts in connection with the abolition of the slave trade. A decade after her husband's death, she edited the diaries and letters of her husband's early career for publication in London by Richard Bentley and Son. On 19 June 1874 she was granted a pension in recognition of her husband's services. She then studied a variety of French memoirs, and compiled from them several books on French society. A few of the better known including "Old Paris: its Court and Literary Salons", appeared in two volumes in 1878, and "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century", also in two volumes. Correspondence with her London publishers survives. Lady Jackson also wrote about art, especially Western painting, in her histories of the French royal court. In her book "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century", she observed: "At about this time [speaking of the painter Raphael] only, movable pictures, to be hung on walls as ornaments, began to be in frequent demand. It is considered doubtful whether before the sixteenth century any such existed. For what would now be termed the easel pictures of the older masters have been detached from some articles of civil or ecclesiastical furniture." As a widow Jackson lived at Upper Norwood, Surrey. She died at Bath on 9 December 1891.

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