Memoirs of Prince Metternich, in Five Volumes: I: 1773-1815 - Materials for the History of My Public Life: Autobiographical Memoir; Gallery of Celebrated Contemporaries; Collection of Documents from the First Period of Metternich's Life; II: 1773-1815; I…

Complete in five volumes. Green cloth, gilt titles. Translated from the original German and French by Mrs. Alexander Napier and Gerard W. Smith. xvi, 430; vii, [1], 638, [2]; viii, 674; viii, 642; xi, [1], 476 pp. 8vo. An autobiography by the Austrian prince, which includes contemporary firsthand accounts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Empress Josephine, and the July Revolution (also known as the French Revolution of 1830, or the Second French Revolution, which overthrew King Charles X). The original work was published in two volumes covering 1773-1815, to which Metternich then added additional content which comprised another two-volume set (1815-1829), and finally a fifth volume with accounts of the years 1830-1835.