Napoleon. LUDWIG (Emil).

Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul.

21 plates.

First Edition. 8vo. [235 x 155 x 52 mm]. xii, [ii], 707 pp. Bound c.2000 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Asprey in "Cosway-style" of red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a triple fillet border with chain rolls, bees and "N" within a laurel wreath, at the centre of the front cover an inlaid miniature portrait of Napoleon painted on ivorene framed with gilt emblematic tools. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with emblematic centres and volutes in the corners, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets, Cockerell marbled endleaves, gilt edges. Contained in a quarter red goatskin drop-over box with red cloth sides, the spine with raised bands and tooled in gilt to reproduce the book.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.

Stock no. 8071.