1908 BEAUTIFUL Napoleon 1ed Portraits & Paintings Connoisseur French Revolution

1908 BEAUTIFUL Napoleon 1^ed Portraits & Paintings Connoisseur French Revolution

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

 – Napoléon Bonaparte

Napoléon Bonaparte was the most prominent Military leader during the French Revolution and led many successful campaigns, dominated European, and global affairs for more than a decade. In the years following the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, the French public was interested in the life of Napoleon and his armies.

James Thomas Baily’s collection of illustrations depict Napoleon in a variety of locations, poses, scenes, and events all drawn or painted from a variety of 19^th-century artists. Many of the illustrations included in Baily’s 1908 “Napoleon” are in color as well. A fine piece!

Item number: #25289

Price: $499

BAILY, James Thomas

Napoleon, illustrated with prints from contemporary and other portraits

London: The connoisseur Magazine, 1908. 1^st edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 126
  • 58 illustrations (on 53 leaves)
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Sir Thomas Thompson
  • Likely Sir Thomas Raikes Lovett Thompson, MC, 4th Baronet (1881–1964), a descendant of Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, 1st Baronet, GCB (1766–1828), who was an officer of the British Royal Navy. He served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary, and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He was one of Horatio Nelson’s Band of Brothers at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and Comptroller of the Navy from 1806 to 1816. Motto: NON QUO SED QUOMODO
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Red cloth
• Size: ~11.25in X 9in (28.5cm x 22.5cm)

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