[CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, illustrator]. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: (vols. 1-3) John Fairburn, (vol. 4) John Cumberland, 1823-28. 24 colored aquatint plates, 2 uncolored aquatint plates and one engraving by Cruikshank after Vernet and others. 4 volumes, full dark blue crushed levant morocco, covers with tripple gilt fillet borders, spines gilt-tooled with gilt Napoleonic emblems, g.e., by R. WALLIS, each upper cover detached, some corners bumped. FIRST EDITION, with half-titles present in vols. 1 & 2 (none issued for vols. 3 & 4); complete list of plates present in last volume (but without partial list of plates sometimes found in vol. 2). Abbey/Life 359; Tooley 278; Cohn 435. (4)