[Embroidered Binding | Ellen Evershed] Memoirs of Marie Antoinette Private Press The first Palmetto Press printing

The first Palmetto Press printing was in 1900

Brown lettering and gilt decoration to spine

but the remaining illustrations and facsimile letters are printed on Japan vellum

Rolled gilt turn-ins with light green and purple marbled endpapers

[Embroidered Binding | Ellen Evershed] Memoirs of Marie Antoinette Private Press The first Palmetto Press printingMadame Campan. Memoirs of Marie Antoinette. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906. Bound in a stunning, finely hand embroidered binding, with cream silk moir covers affixed to the original cloth, and the front cover featuring a design of twelve floral bunches of various shapes and sizes, with blue and purple flowers and leaves in various shades of green, intertwined with lavender thread and a gold bullion wire embroidered monogram of Marie Antoinette's