Product Description
First edition, first printing. A wonderful association copy signed by Nancy Mitford on the half-title page and inscribed to Alvilde and James Lees-Milne dated 21 May 1967. 255 pp, illustrated. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with foxing to cloth-affect and text block edges, contents lightly toned and occasionally foxed. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, several scratches to the rear panel and light foxing to the blindside. Mitford's witty and well-researched homage to the Grand Dauphin, the self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV, and his gilded cage court members. A fun read littered with anecdotes that presents the reader with a gossip column-like perspective on one of history's most scandalous monarchs.The prominent landscape designer Alvilde Lees-Milne, formerly Viscountess Chaplin, was a friend of Nancy Mitford via her second husband. James Lees-Milne, wrote numerous biographies and books on architecture but was best known for his diaries, was intimately connected with the Mitford siblings, having been a lover of Tom Mitford when the two were at Eton College.
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