Shelfmark
Id5.5.53
Author
Title
Napoleon : an essay / by William Makepeace Thackeray ; together with reproductions of five original sketches by the author.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Boston : D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1915.
Physical description
[2], 23, [7] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Note
"Privately printed."--title page.
Note
"Seventy-five copies of this book were printed by ... the Merrymount Press ... in the month of March, 1915" -- Colophon.
Note
Foreword signed: W.B.O.F. [i.e., William B. Osgood Field]
Note
Includes introductory matter by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Note
Includes facsimile of Thackeray's autograph text printed on rectos only of pp. 11-18.
Note
Green and black marbled cloth boards with beige cloth spine; gold-tooled leather spine label.
Note
Untrimmed edges.
Provenance
From the library of Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Provenance
Presentation copy inscribed by William B. Osgood Field to Lady Ritchie, 17 February 1916.
Binding
Contempoary publisher's binding.
Subject
Napoleon, 1769 - 1821 I, Emperor of the French
Added entry--name
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837 - 1919 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Merrymount Press publisher.
Added entry--place
United States Boston.
Identifier
B50232