[Golden Cockerel Press]. BONAPARTE, Napoleon

Napoleon's Memoirs. Edited [and translated] by Somerset De Chair

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.

Folio, two volumes, 423 pages and 80 pages, each with a frontispiece portrait and title page vignette plus endpaper maps.

Gilt-decorated buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut; slight crease to the cloth near the head of the spine of the first volume, with the cloth on the second volume slightly flecked; essentially a fine set with the bookplate of Allan Giles on each front pastedown.

Each volume is number 441 of only 500 copies; the first (and only) edition, prepared from the original manuscript.

Item #97183

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