Author: RIVERS, JOHN
Title: Figaro - the Life of Beaumarchais
Description: London, Hutchinson. 1922, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which has a faded spine, wear to spine head snd sides and light rub marks to front and back. Internally there is a bookplate to front pastedown and age darkening to endpapers else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. 315 pages. 18 Illustrations. Pierre-Augustin Caron as he was born (he added de Beaumarchais later) the French polymath, was, at various times in his life, a watchmaker, an inventor, a playwright, a musician, a diplomat, a spy, a publisher, a horticulturist, an arms dealer, a satirist, a financier, and a revolutionary (both French and American). A VERY SCARCE TITLE 11. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais


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