Lot 233
Golden Cockerel Press.- Bonaparte (Napoleon) Napoleon's Memoirs, 2 vol., one of 50 special copies, 1945
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Bonaparte (Napoleon) Napoleon's Memoirs, edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vol., number 38 of 50 specially bound copies signed by the editor and with facsimile manuscript leaf, from an edition limited to 500, frontispieces, wood-engraved title-vignettes by John Buckland Wright, map endpapers, original two-tone green and crimson morocco ruled and stamped in gilt with Bonaparte bee motifs, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe designed by Buckland Wright, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spines very slightly faded, cloth slip-case (a little soiled), [Cockalorum 167], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Bonaparte (Napoleon) Napoleon's Memoirs, edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vol., number 38 of 50 specially bound copies signed by the editor and with facsimile manuscript leaf, from an edition limited to 500, frontispieces, wood-engraved title-vignettes by John Buckland Wright, map endpapers, original two-tone green and crimson morocco ruled and stamped in gilt with Bonaparte bee motifs, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe designed by Buckland Wright, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spines very slightly faded, cloth slip-case (a little soiled), [Cockalorum 167], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.
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