The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Late Emperor of the French, Selected From the Most Authentic Sources (The Cottage Library)

x, 440pp. Engraved frontispiece; and extra title page with engraved vignette. Issued as part of Milner and Sowerby's Cottage Library, one of the earliest series showcasing affordable books. Cottage Library catalogue on endpapers. Bound in brown, blind embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Cloth worn, especially at edges, rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, spine a tad sunned). Internally some toning to first and last few pages, and small nick on edge of frontispiece, occasional small mild marks, else clean and neat and firmly bound).

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