undated,; gifted in 1902; "This edition is limited to Five Hundred numbered Sets, of which this is Number 336"; includes the two volumes in this one book; translated from the French by H.T. Riley; Printed for The Caslon Society, New York; hardbound; good/fair condition with rough deckled edged pages and a few loosely bound pages; very nice gift inscription to original owner (Christmas 1902) inside front (pic); boards good with a faded/rubbed front picture (pic); no dust jacket.
 
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The Memoirs from which this book is taken appeared in 1829, under the nominal editorship of Lamothe-Langnon.  Though written as autobiography, it would, perhaps, be better to say that in those Memoirs the editor collected the many reminiscences then current of Madame du Barri and welded them into connected narrative.  The facts related are indisputably true, and their presentation through the medium of her personality, a personality which pervades the whole book, throws a light of its own upon that strange and tragic period immediately preceding the French Revolution.  The editor of this present volume has added an Epilogue, to round off as briefly as possible Madame du Barri's romantic story.