Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte : prince of Canino. / Written by himself. Translated from the original manuscript, under the immediate superintendence of the author. Vol. I.
Prince Lucien, Bonaparte, 1st Prince de Canino (1775-1840)
Category
Books
Date
1836
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251628
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 491, [5] p. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Typescript list of extra-illustrations bound in at front. Bookseller's pencil note and price on front free endpaper verso: "51 Extra plates" and "£8-11-0 net". Ephemera: loosely inserted slip of paper with typescript details of the book. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full blue morocco; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; gilt fillets and rolls on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte' and 'Extra illustrated'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt top edge; blue endpapers; blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Prince Lucien, Bonaparte, 1st Prince de Canino (1775-1840), author