(MARY TODD LINCOLN). CHARLES DUKE YONGE. THE LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. LONDON: 1877. MARY TODD LINCOLN'S COPY

8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 206 x 530 mm). Mounted oval portrait frontispiece; a few leaves with repairs to fore-edges. Publisher's purple blindstamped cloth; rubbed, spine darkened and crudely repaired at edges.

Librairie Galignani (ticket on front pastedown) — Mary Todd Lincoln (signature) — Emil Edward Hurja 

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Mary Todd Lincoln's copy of The Life of Marie Antoinette, signed "Mary Lincoln / 1878" on the half-title. Comparisons between Mrs. Lincoln and Marie Antoinette have been drawn before. Both were attacked as spendthrifts and both were judged harshly on a variety of charges by the popular press. Both women also endured great losses and privations in their lives. Mrs. Lincoln was well-educated and spoke French fluently. She travelled in Europe and lived in Pau, France, from 1877 to 1880. The present volume was purchased by Mrs. Lincoln in 1878 at the Librarie Galignani on the rue de Rivoli in Paris, the oldest English-language bookstore on the Continent and still in operation today.

With a carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Lincoln attached to the front free endpaper.