Record ID:
75721
Accession number:
PMM 92
Creator:
Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837.
Title:
Romances / mises en musique par Hortense, duchesse de Saint-Leu, ex-reine de Hollande. ; [avant-propos par le Comte de la Garde].
Published:
[London : Cox et Baylis, 1824]
Credit Line:
Purchased as the gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Notes:
An extra-illustrated edition, with 56 engraved portraits and plates, mostly colored; also contains seven ALS of Hortense, Empress Josephine, Louis Bonaparte, Eugène Beauharnais, Napoleon I, Alexander I of Russia, and Napoleon III.
The songs are printed on 12 unnumbered leaves, each accompanied by an engraving executed by W. Read.
"Avant-propos de l'éditeur": p. [3]; "Notice biographique": p. [5]-15; imprint: p. [16].
Provenance:
From the library of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott.
Associated names:
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.
Prescott, Marjorie Wiggin, 1893-1980, former owner.
Department:
Music Collection: