Title:

Mémoires sur Madame la duchesse de St.-Leu, ex-reine de Hollande : suivis des romances composées et mises en musique par elle-même, et ornés d'un portrait et de douze gravures.

Contributor(s):

La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, comte de, 1783-1853?; Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837

Published:

Londres : Colburn et Bentley, 1832 ([London] : Cox et fils)

Printer Name:

Cox et fils

Printers Place:

London

Binding:

Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt (joints split), marbled endpapers, gilt tops; binder's title: Memoires et romances de Hortense, duchesse de St. Leu, ex-reine de Hollande.

Description:

xi, 84, [13] p., [64] leaves of plates : ill., facsim., ports. (some col.) ; 23 x 29 cm.

Language:

French

Notes:

Anonymous; has been attributed to Auguste de Messence, comte de Lagarde. Cf. American quarterly review, v. 13, p. 127.
In 2 pts.; pt. [2] has special t.p., engraved: Romances mises en musique, par Hortense, duchesse de Saint-Leu, ex-reine de Hollande.
Pt. [2] includes t.p. leaf, [12] leaves of music (songs with piano), [13] leaves of plates (1 facsim., 12 engravings signed: Made. la duchesse de St. Leu; W. Read sc.)

Local Notes:

Page 69 misnumbered 96.
Some ill. mounted.
French, with p. 74-84 in English.

Subject(s):

Queens -- Netherlands -- Biography

Bonaparte family

Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837

Call Number:

DC216.4 M53 1832 folio