Octavo grey cloth (tips rubbed) viii +177pp +2pp recent publications+ 224p catalogue. *These reminiscences are from the diary of a man who knew and was invited to all the European and English Society of the time. Including Dickens & Thackeray, Victor Hugo & Dumas, Byron's "friend" the countess Guiccioli, Emperor Napoleon III, Rossini's funeral He lived through the Franco-German War of 1870, the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and many other interesting events, herein chronicled.