The Life of Napoleon I, Including New Materials from the British Official Records (Volumes I and II)

Author(s): Rose, John Holland

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	N/A
Edition:	3rd Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	George Bell and Sons
Publication Year:	1903
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	023967
Catalogue(s):	Autobiography and Biography ◇ History - Europe

Third, revised edition. Complete in two volumes. xiv, 512pp, with errata slip bound in, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, occasional further monochrome plate illustrations, drawings in text, one map; viii, 596pp, occasional monochrome plate illustrations and in text illustrations, including map. Uniformly bound in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decoration on the spine. All edges deckled. Title page printed in red and black. 8vos. Boards worn, rubbed at edges and on joints, a little rounded at corners and spine tips. Armorial bookplate on Oliver Philip Behrens on the front paste down of both volumes - damaged - in volume II (likely Oliver Philip Behrens (1863-1953), an Oxford educated Manchester merchant who retired to Tunbridge Wells in Kent, a collector of sporting prints and drawings). Behren's reading note on first leaf, dated 1907; gift inscription to Celia, Behren's first wife, inked on next leaf, dated 1903.

Keywords:

Napoleon Bonaparte French History French Republic Bookplates Oliver Philip Behrens