[Embroidered Binding | Ellen Evershed] Memoirs of Marie Antoinette Private Press Brown lettering and gilt decoration

Brown lettering and gilt decoration to spine

It was likely commissioned by the dealer

but the remaining illustrations and facsimile letters are printed on Japan vellum

Text within ornamental borders

[Embroidered Binding | Ellen Evershed] Memoirs of Marie Antoinette Private Press Brown lettering and gilt decorationMadame Campan. Memoirs of Marie Antoinette. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906. Bound in a stunning, finely hand embroidered binding, with cream silk moir covers affixed to the original cloth, and the front cover featuring a design of twelve floral bunches of various shapes and sizes, with blue and purple flowers and leaves in various shades of green, intertwined with lavender thread and a gold bullion wire embroidered monogram of Marie Antoinette's