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18942368Paris: Librairie Plon 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. Dark blue half morocco with marbled paper boards. Bound by Blackwell. 5 raised bands. Gilt lettering on spines. Marbled endpapers. Gilt upper text block. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front paste down. Condition of the books is VERY GOOD : v slight wear and chipping to spine corners and edges small bit of leather missing at top of spine foxing to side and bottom of text block marbled boards slightly worn. A very tight clean copy. Librairie Plon hardcover
1894808P31London: Richard Bentley and Son 1894. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A nice set of this personal biography on the life of Napoleon this being the second edition of the English translation by Arthur Levy. The second edition of this uncommon work published in the same year as the first edition.Complete in two volumes.Here translated into English by Arthur Levy originally written in French by Stephen Louis Simeon.An extensive two volume biography looking deeply into the personal life and career of the tyrannical Napoleon Bonaparte from his birth and family life up to his exile and death.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. One page of adverts to the rear of Volume I. Volume I bound without the half-title. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Spines are a little faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards and spines. Small tide mark to the head of the spine of Volume II. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few light spots. Volume I bound without the half-title. Stamp of John N. Bullen to various pages throughout each volume. Tissue guard to the frontispiece of Volume II is detached but present. Tide mark to the head of the frontispieces. Very Good Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
