VARIOUS & BONAPARTE (Napoleon)

Letters of Love, Napoleon and Others.

FINELY BOUND LOVE LETTERS

12mo., 72pp., 15x12cm. Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red goatskin, covers with borders of solid and dotted gilt rules, each corner terminating on a green onlay heart, upper cover lettered in gilt, spine in six gilt ruled compartments with title lettered in gilt, triple leaf sprays in blind at termination of each raised band, triple solid gilt rules to turn-ins, binders gilt stamp to rear turn-in, t.e.g. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1911.

£600.00

Good, top half of upper joint neatly repaired, with light bumps to corners also refurbished, otherwise clean and bright.

A charming collection of love letters, including those by Napoleon to Josephine, Keats to Fanny Brawne and Mary Wollstonecraft to the scoundrel Gilbert Imlay, finely bound by the greatest commercial bindery of the period.

Stock No.
258274