Court and Camp of Napoleon I. Illustrated with Portraits of Prince de Talleyrand, Joachim Murat, and Marshall Soult.
London: William Tegg, 1861. Frontis, three portrait. With a fold-out chart. First Thus. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. xvi, 423. Original blind-stamped red cloth with stamped gilt lettering and designs. AEG. Frontis., three portraits. With a fold-out chart, "A Tabular View of the Buonaparte Family." Slight wear to extremities; a one-inch split to top of rear joint. A bright copy. Very Good+. Item #1296
With an eye toward the public's thirst for material on Napoleon, while at the same time ridiculing the absurd pettiness of some published accounts (on the subject of whether Talleyrand's memoirs would be published, Talleyrand was quoted as saying, "I only know that my cook's reminiscences are in the press") the editor of this title compiles biographies of Bonapartes and Napoleon's ministers, marshals and generals.
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