Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1900.  Hard cover, 301 pages including Index.  Light green boards with gilt lettering on spine; discolouration on front board, a bit of corner and spine end wear; binding sound with headbands.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white frontis with tissue guard, black & white photo plates; a bit of biopredation along front pastedown hinge.  Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin.  The first of three volumes on the Duchess of Berry, born November 5, 1798 in Naples, her marriage to Charles Ferdinand, nephew to King Louis XVIII of France, and life at court until the death of King Louis XVIII.