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THE CATALOGUES OF BROADLEY’S MONUMENTAL EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET OF LIFE OF NAPOLEON I AND NAPOLEON. THE LAST PHASE,
AND HIS NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY
BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick – Walter Vernon DANIELL (compiler). Collectanea Napoleonica. Being a Catalogue of the Collection of Autographs, Historical Documents, Broadsides, Caricatures, Drawings, Maps, Music, Portraits, Naval and Military Costume-Plates, Battle Scenes, Views, Etc., Etc. Relating to Napoleon I. and his Times, 1769-1821. Formed by A.M. Broadley … Compiled by Walter V. Daniell. Together with an Explanatory Preface by A.M. Broadley, and a Catalogue of his Napoleonic Library. London, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, and Brussels: Hudson & Kearns for W.V. Daniell, Godefroy Mayer, Emile Hirsch, R.W.P. de Vries, and Spineux & Cie., [1905].
Octavo (242 x 154mm), pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [i]-v, [6 (blank)], [7]-166. Title printed in red and black. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Napoleon in Egypt after E. Detaille retaining tissue guard, 7 half-tone plates, and half-tone illustrations in the text. (Occasional very light spotting, a few very light marks, very light marginal damp-marking on frontispieces.) Original green cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, and decorated with gilt ‘N’-cipher. (Light spotting and offsetting on endpapers, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, a few light marks.) A very good copy. Provenance: some entries marked in pencil and occasionally annotated by an early hand – traces of [?]booklabel on upper pastedown.
First edition. The author, journalist, and collector Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916) was the author or co-author of a number of works on Napoleon and his era, including Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror (London, 1908), Nelson’s Hardy: his Life, Letters and Friends (London, 1909), Dumouriez and the Defence of England against Napoleon (London, 1909), Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821 (London, 1911), and Napoleon in Exile (London, 1914). Broadley was also a celebrated grangeriser (or extra-illustrator) of books, and one of his greatest achievements was the creation, with the assistance of Daniell, of an extra-illustrated set of Rose’s Life of Napoleon I and Rosebery’s Napoleon. The Last Phase by inlaying and extending the works from three octavo to twenty-eight folio volumes with engravings, portraits, manuscripts, autograph letters, etc. over a period of four years. This monumental work was bought by George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston at the auction of Broadley’s library held in four sales between 1916 and 1918, and Curzon later bequeathed the set to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Described by Levis as ‘an interesting, well illustrated volume’, Collectanea Napoleonica is composed of two parts. Part I (pp. [7]-125) is ‘An Index to the Napoleonic Collections Illustrating Mr. J. Holland Rose’s “Life of Napoleon I.” and Lord Rosebery’s “Last Phase”, Extended to 28 vols., Royal Folio’, which catalogues the portraits, engravings, manuscripts, and other items which extra-illustrate the set, and part II (pp. [127]-166) is a ‘Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, etc., Relating to Napoleon I. and his Times’.
Kircheisen p. xxxiv; Levis, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Most Important Books in the English Language, Relating to the Art & History of Engraving and the Collecting of Prints, p. 206; Wight, Louis XVII: A Bibliography, 5.
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