Edited from the original mss. by William Bray. New York, M. Walter Dunne, Publisher, 1901, 2 vols, 240 x 170, 380 and 366 pp. (Memoirs and Secret Chronicles of the Courts of Europe). Illustrated with photogravures on Japan vellum, autographs, seals, hand-painted reproductions of famous paintings and full page portraits. Finely bound in full maroon leather with gilt titles & decorations to spines, large coat of arms to front covers with blue & black painted inlays, gilt tooled eagles to board corners. Gilt top edges, others untrimmed. Ribbon markers bound in. Saint Dunstan binding, stamped & signed on heel of spines.