Description

London: The Grolier Society, no date, circa 1900. Twenty-one volume matched set of the Edition Connoisseur Astrale. With a stated limitation of 75 copies printed for Great Britain and America, this is copy number 20. Bound in three-quarter crushed morocco, with gilt lettering and decoration, rubbing to edges, spines evenly toned to brown, pages clean and binding sound. Title-pages printed in red, gold and black, photoreproduction frontispieces and plates, portraits, facsimiles, etc., each in two states (colored and uncolored). Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with brief descriptive letterpress in red. Comprised of four subsets: The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte , William Hazlitt; Vols. I-VI Memoirs of Napoleon , Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne; Vols. I-IV Memoirs of Madame Juno t (Duchesse D'Abrantes); Vols. I-VI Memoirs of the Prince De Talleyrand, edited by The Duc De Broglie; Vols. I-V