GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, comtesse de]. ~ Mademoiselle de La Fayette, ou, le siècle de Louis XIII... deuxième édition. Paris: [Cellot for] Maradan, 1813.
2 vols, 12mo (160 × 85 mm), pp. [4], xii, 274; [4], 260, complete with half-titles. Occasional spotting. Early quarter calf, gilt panelled spine. A nice copy.
Second edition (printed in the same year as the first) of her historical novel on the reign of Louis XIII, who she revered for his piety and whose reputation she sought to rehabilitate in France. Cioranescu 30670.
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