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184658406Paris: J. Dumaine 1846. 4to 1 volume only of 6 - the second volume wasn't published until 1851 and volumes 3-6 weren't published until 1862-71; pp. xxviii 387 1; 10 engraved plates of weapons and equipment of war; contemporary full green morocco elaborate gilt rules on covers enclosing the Napoleonic crown with the letter 'N' beneath gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 2 a.e.g. inner dentelles; extremities a bit rubbed small crack starting at the bottom of the front joint all else very good. This copy inscribed "Lord William Lennox souvenir de la part de l'auteur Napoleon Louis B" part of the 'B' lost to the binder's knife. Lord William Pitt Lennox 1799-1881 was a British Army officer and writer of bad novels. He preferred sport horseracing literature and other entertainments to military life - a life cut short by blindness in one eye. <br/><br/> J. Dumaine unknown books