GILT TOOLED SOTHERANS BINDING OF CLASSIC NAPOLEONIC HOMMAGE BY FRENCH PRESIDENT.
COMPLETE SET OF 20 VOLUMES BOUND IN 10. xii, 272; viii252; viii, 328; viii, 322; [2], 254; [2], 302; vi, 362; vi, 378; vii, 320; [2], 230; vi, 251; viii, 268; [2], 192; [2], 240; xi, 253; vii, 277; [4], 478; [4], 390; [4], 361; [4], 440. 72 STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES. Beautifully marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Some pages unopened. "Bound by Sotheran & Co." stamped on verso of all front free endpapers. Scattered foxing and some offsetting. 16 x 23 cm. Uniformly bound in near contemporary half red crushed Niger morocco by Sotherans. Spines in compartments with alternating Napoleonic military insignia, imperial eagles and imperial "N" cypher in gilt hand-tooling, within double fillet borders. Upper and lower covers with double fillets in gilt over marbled paper covered boards. Some very slight rubbing- OVERALL IN FINE CONDITION. Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic. OCLC Number:1066881114