NAPOLEON IN EXILE:.

Bound in original green cloth, gilt with gilt roundel of Napoleon on front boards. Deckled edges. Extremities a little worn and some foxing largely confined to edges. Bookplates of York Minster Library.

£165.00

Publisher

Stanley Paul and Co. 31 Essex Street, Strand, W.C.,

Place

London

Date

1914-1915..

Synopsis

[3 vols.] contents: elba from the entry of the allies into paris on the 31st march 1814 to the return of napoleon from elba and his landing at golfe jouan on the 1st march 1815. with a chapter on the iconography by a. m. broadley. with 51 illustrations from mr. broadley's collection.
st. helena (1815-1821). with two coloured frontispieces and one hundred illustrations mainly from the collection of a. m. broadley. volumes i and ii.

Item Description

THREE VOLUMES. 4to. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Elba, 349 pp. + [1] + [2] publisher's advertisements; St. Helena, Vol. I, 347 pp.; Vol. II, 368 pp. Title pages in black and red.

Illustrations

Illustrated by 147 pages of plates, including 3 frontispieces, one photogravure portrait and 2 coloured, 7 maps and plans, including 3 folding.

Notes

A detailed account of the exile of Napoleon, first on Elba, 1814-15 and subsequently on St. Helena, 1815-21 by Norwood Young (1860-1943). It is copiously illustrated, including facsimiles and many contemporary caricatures from the collection of Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916), author of Napoleon in Caricature.

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