1960s Illustrated Book, Nancy Mitford's Madame De Pompadour

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Title: Madame de Pompadour.
Author: Nancy Mitford.
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Origin: New York.
Publication date: Copyright 1968.

… Read more Title: Madame de Pompadour.
Author: Nancy Mitford.
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Origin: New York.
Publication date: Copyright 1968.

Description: 304 p. 4to. Green publisher's cloth hardcover, gilt title stamped on spine cover/front board, illustrations - black/white endpapers, includes fifty color photographs and more than 130 black-and-white images, semi-gloss color dust jacket.

Measures: 1.25 W x 8 D x 10.25 H inches.

About the author and work: In a lively combination of history and character study, Mitford describes the life of Madame de Pompadour, her rise to power and her great talents as a patron on the arts. She paints a glittering picture of the court and untangles the complicated threads of politics at home and abroad. Mitford has revised and amplified her original biography of Madame de Pompadour for this superbly illustrated volume – a companion to her recent best-selling ‘The Sun King.’

Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, about the foibles of the English upper class. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970). In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin’s disease. See less