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Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Bonaparte, Napoleon] [Cruikshank, George] (Combe, William) The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax

London: Printed for T. Tegg, et al., 1815. First edition, mixed issue. 8vo. (2), 260 pp. Illustrated with a hand-colored engraved and aquatint frontispiece, hand-colored engraved and aquatint vignette title-page, and 28 hand-colored engravings with aquatint, by George Cruikshank. Full crimson levant, stamped on front and rear boards with the imperial eagle from Napoleon's coat of arms, spine tooled with additional imperial insignia; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; gilt dentelles; red silk end leaves; by W. Root & Son; repaired closed tear in fore-edge, pp. 31/32; scattered foxing to plates (as usual); in red cloth dust-jacket. Abbey Life 356; Cohn 153 (1924)

A handsomely bound first edition of William Combe's satirical verses on the career of Napoleon Bonaparte, delightfully illustrated with plates by English caricaturist, George Cruikshank.

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