The private life of Napoleon / by Arthur Lévy ; from the French by Stephen Louis Simeon ...
Arthur Lévy (1847-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251603
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. 2 v. : ports. ; 8vo. Bookseller's pencil note, price and code on front free endpaper in vol. 1: "2 Vols", "25/- and "ea/a". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate, signed S. Dyke (not in Franks) in both vols.: 'Isabel Napier'; pencil date: "22 June 1915" written on bookplate in vol. 1. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930 in both vols.: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; gilt stamped spine compartments: 'N' in laurel wreath, imperial eagle, and bee; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Private life of Napoleon' and 'Levy / Vol. I[-II]'; gilt textblock edges; pink endpapers.
Makers and roles
Arthur Lévy (1847-1931), author Simeon, Stephen Louis, translator