Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French, with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution

Title: Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French, with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution

Author: Scott, Walter

Publication: New-London: W. & J. Bolles, 1839.

Description: Biography of Napoleon, by Sir Walter Scott. Frontispiece portrait. Three volumes in one, with separate title pages and pagination for each volume. Bound in contemporary full brown sheep over boards, with spine tooled in gilt. 9 x 5.5 inches; v.1.: iv, [1], x-xv, [2], 18-516 [=512], [1] leaf of plates; v.2.: viii, [1], 10-399, [1] pages; v.3.: viii, [1], 10-368, lxix, [1] pages. Signature of former owner and annotations on endpapers. Insect damage to front endpaper and first few leaves, moderate foxing throughout, and cracking of the front hinge. Good. A worn, but sound copy in a contemporary binding.