Shelfmark
Kb.4.18 - Kb.4.19
Author
Title
The history of Napoleon / edited by R. H. Horne ; illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood, from designs by Raffet and Horace Vernet ; in two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Robert Tyas, 1841.
Physical description
2 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 26 cm.
Note
"Fac-similes of Napoleon's various signatures, with explanations of them copied by permission from the extraordinary collection in the possession or Mr. Sainsbury": v. 1, p. 1-12 (first grouping).
Note
Appendix v. 2: "The second funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte ...": v. 2, [4], 28, [2] p. at end, with special title page.
Note
Final leaf of appendix contains publisher's advertisements with price of "Tyas' illustrated Napoleon" corrected in ink.
Note
Publisher's brown cloth case binding; upper cover with imperial eagle stamped in gilt within blind-stamped decorative frame; spine stamped in gilt with title information within design reproducing the Colonne Vendôme.
Provenance
Inscription on front endpaper: "R.A. Busby, presented by his friend Sainsbury", dated 1842.
Provenance
Loosely inserted postcard in v. 1, p. 46, reproducing facsimile of Napoleon's abdication on 6 August 1814, sent from France to Teddy and Nellie Craig by Edward Gordon Craig; postmark year illegible.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Copy-specific note
Publisher's advertisement for Irvin Eller's History of Belvoir Castle, Grantham : S. Ridge ; London : R. Tyas, tipped in at end of v. 2.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted lithograph "Napoléon et Paoli" by La Cauchie after Charlet loosely inserted following v. 2 title page.
Subject
Napoleon, 1769 - 1821 I, Emperor of the French.
Subject
France History 1789-1815.
Added entry--name
Tyas, Robert, 1811 - 1879 publisher.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Ellen Gordon, 1904 - 1975 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie, 1804 - 1860 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Vernet, Horace, 1789 - 1863 illustrator.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46636