IRELAND, Samuel W.H. (1777-1835). The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: John Cumberland, 1828-1829.
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IRELAND, Samuel W.H. (1777-1835). The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: John Cumberland, 1828-1829.

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IRELAND, Samuel W.H. (1777-1835). The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: John Cumberland, 1828-1829.

Fine copy of this colour-plate edition of Ireland's biography of Napoleon, bound to style by Riviere. This is the slightly later issue with the plates carrying the Cumberland imprint. Abbey Life, 359; Tooley 278; Cohn 435.

4 volumes, octavo (214 x 130mm). Engraved titles, 27 folding plates by George Cruikshank, 26 being aquatints and 24 hand-coloured (the plates laid down on fine linen, some with a few expert repairs, lower margins of plates of first 2 plates in vol. III cut close just into captions, some gatherings with very faint even browning). Early 20th-century red crushed morocco by Riviere in Napoleonic-style, covers with gilt-tooled cornerpieces of bees and laurel leaves, the spines in compartments decorated in gilt with bees and crowned monogram 'N', gilt turn-ins and top edges gilt. Provenance: Gloucester (bookplates).
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