[Horace Vernet] Paul-Mathieu Laurent - Histoire de l’empereur Napoléon [reliure à l'aigle impérial] - 1839

First edition of this monograph of the Emperor Napoleon by Paul-Mathieu Laurent, known as Laurent de l'Ardèche (1793-1877) who participated in the construction of the Napoleonic legend. It reviews the life of the Emperor from his birth to his death.

It is illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Brevière and numerous compositions in the text after Horace Vernet, in the first printing.

Copy covered in a pretty binding signed Catoir in red half-morocco with period corners. Back decorated with personalized and gilded irons, imperial eagle at the top.

Condition: slight rubbing on the caps, corners and joints. Fresh interior, foxing on the frontispiece and endpapers, verse work on the half-title. Good condition. Heraldic ex-libris on the first back cover.

[Horace Vernet] ; Paul-Mathieu Laurent
History of the Emperor Napoleon [imperial eagle binding]
Paris: Dubochet et Cie (Imp. Éverat et Cie) , 1839
Strong in-8 (26. 5 x 17. 5 cm) ; 802pp.

Subject: Pretty morocco binding with imperial eagle