Beschreibung:

8 vol., colour frontispieces, plates including colour, extra-illustrated with c.500 plates added by Bayntun of Bath from various sources, including over 150 hand-coloured (some portraits hand-coloured by Stanley Hardy of Bayntun), numerous folding or double-page, mostly with tissue guards, damp-wrinkling and occasional light damp-staining affecting contents of vol.III to minor degree, handsomely bound in full red morocco, gilt, by Bayntun of Bath, with central arms of Napoleon within roll borders and floriate corner-pieces to covers and Napoleonic motifs in gilt compartments within raised bands to spines, neatly rebacked in red morocco preserving original backstrips, minor rubbing to extremities but overall an attractive set, g.e., 4to, New York, 1896. *** A fine deluxe issue of this extensive life of Napoleon, luxuriously bound in full red morocco by Bayntun and extra-illustrated with numerous engravings, etchings and aquatints representing Napoleon's life, travels and campaigns. Sources include Bradford's large hand-coloured Spanish views, Heath's hand-coloured views of Egypt, further hand-coloured plates on costume and battles, folding engraved plates of European views and more.