[CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, illustrator]. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: John Cumberland, 1828. 4 engraved titles, 27 engraved folding plates (24 hand-colored aquatints) by Cruikshank after Vernet and others. 4 volumes, 8vo, later purple crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet borders and gilt Napoleonic emblems, spines gilt-tooled with gilt Napoleonic "N" and emblems, t.e.g., purple turn-ins with gilt Napoleonic bees, stamp-signed on lower turn-in "ROOT & SON"; minor browning and staining, plates laid down on silk; purple cloth dust jackets. Abbey Life 359; Tooley 278. (4)