Ltd Ed #375/500 Secret Memoirs Court of Empress Josephine 3 Vol Grolier Soc 1904 For Sale

Secret Memoirs of the Court of the Empress Josephine

with Anecdotes of the Courts of Navarre and Malmaison

By Madame Georgette Ducrest | Published by The Grolier Society, London | Printed at Edinburgh Press, c. 1904

Limited Edition – No. 375 of 500 Copies

Each volume includes the limitation page reading:

“Limited to five hundred copies for England and America, of which this is number 375.”

Complete 3-Volume Set – Uniformly Numbered and Bound

• Original maroon cloth bindings with paper spine labels

• Gilt top edges and deckled fore/bottom edges

• Printed on laid paper with embossed Grolier watermark

• Illustrated frontispiece of Napoleon & Josephine

• Crisp text, wide margins, no missing pages

Condition:

Very Good overall for age. Bindings tight, pages clean with mild age toning. Minor edge wear and light label flaking consistent with age. No loose pages or writing.

Edition Details:

• Publisher: The Grolier Society (London)

• Printer: Edinburgh Press

• Year: c. 1904

• Limitation: No. 375 of 500 copies

• Volumes: I, II & III

• Dimensions: approx. 8.75 × 6 in (22 × 15 cm)

Collector Notes:

This is part of The Grolier Society’s exclusive “Secret Court Memoirs” series, each subset issued in small numbered runs for England and America. Matching numbered sets such as this are increasingly scarce in the market.

💡 See my other listing for the matching limited-edition 2-volume set of Secret Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette (#375 of 500) – issued by the same Grolier Society press and numbered to match this set.