Two hardcover volumes in octavo 225x150 mm each, uniformly bound in publisher’s red cloth, spines flat, gilt-blocked and lettered with author/title, series notice, volume numeration, crowned GR cyphers and crowned eagles, blind-ruled panels; front boards gilt-blocked with satirical vignette within a frame, blind double-rule borders; top edges gilt, some leaves uncut, spines sunned. Front flyleaf with bookseller’s ticket: “Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Importers & Booksellers, 385 Wash’n St., Boston” and a pencil presentation inscription: “For William, with best Christmas wishes from C. T. C., 1914”; with a note above: “Inscribed by Charles T. Copeland, Harvard prof.”
Title-page: NAPOLEON | IN CARICATURE | 1795—1821 | BY | A. M. BROADLEY | JOINT AUTHOR OF “NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND” | “DUMOURIEZ AND THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND AGAINST NAPOLEON” | “NELSON’S HARDY: HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND FRIENDS,” ETC. ETC. | WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON | PICTORIAL SATIRE AS A FACTOR IN NAPOLEONIC HISTORY | BY | J. HOLLAND ROSE, LITT.D.CANTAB. | AUTHOR OF “A LIFE OF NAPOLEON,” “NAPOLEONIC STUDIES” | “THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN NATIONS,” ETC. | WITH NEARLY 250 ILLUSTRATIONS, 24 IN COLOUR | IN TWO VOLS.—VOL. I (II) | LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD | NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMXI ||
Printer (verso of title): Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh.
Provenance: Copeland, Charles Townsend (American, 1860–1952) – Harvard professor, poet, and writer.
Vol. I:
Pagination: [i-vi] vii-lxxvii, [3] [1] 2-391 [392 blank], total 472 pages
Collation (excluding plates): a–e⁸, A–Z⁸, 2A⁸, 2B⁴, total 236 leaves
Plates: 13 colour (frontispiece + 12 facing pp. 116, 174, 176, 196, 208, 226, 240, 334, 336, 342, 372, 386) and 99 black & white (total 112 plates out of collation)
Contents (selected):
I. Napoleon in Caricature (p.1) • II. The British Caricaturists of Napoleon (p.23) • III. The Publishers and Purveyors of English Caricatures of Napoleon (p.51) • IV. Genesis of the Caricaturing of Napoleon Bonaparte in England (Oct. 5, 1795–Oct. 6, 1797) (p.80) • V. Commander-in-Chief of the Army of England (Oct. 26, 1797–May 19, 1798) (p.104) • VI. Egyptian Campaign (May 19, 1798–Oct 9, 1799) (p.114) • VII–IX. The Consulate (1799–1804) (pp.128, 143, 167) • X–XI. The Empire (1804–07) (pp.214, 237) • XII. Peninsular War (1808–14) (p.266) • XIII. Napoleon from 1808 to 1814 (p.285) • XIV. Russian Campaign and Retreat from Moscow (1812–13) (p.309) • XV. Germany and France (1813–14) (p.327) • XVI. Elba and the Return (p.353) • XVII. The Hundred Days and Waterloo (p.374).
Vol. II:
Pagination: [2blank] [i-iv] v-xii [2], [1] 2-441 [442 blank], [2] [1-3] 4-16 advert., total 476 pages
Collation (excluding plates): π⁸ A–Z⁸ 2A–2D⁸ 2E⁴, χ¹⁰, total 238 leaves
Plates: 11 colour (frontispiece + 10 facing pp. 28, 34, 36, 40, 45, 56, 72, 82, 112, 170) and 115 black & white (total 126 plates out of collation)
Contents (headings):
Ch. XVIII Last Years, the “Bellerophon” & “Northumberland,” St Helena (July 1815–May 1821) (p.1) • XIX–XXI French caricature (1795–1821; including La Violette orders) (pp.25, 57, 88) • XXII–XXIV German, Italian/Spanish, Russian caricatures (pp.100, 142, 170) • XXV–XXVI Holland; Switzerland & Scandinavia (pp.184, 201) • XXVII Odium Theologicum; Prophetic/Hieroglyphic prints (p.218) • XXVIII English heraldic caricatures (p.232) • XXIX A cosmopolitan caricature: Voltz’s “Triumph of the Year 1813” and adaptations (p.242) • XXX Napoleonic caricatures in pottery and porcelain (p.258) • XXXI Aftermath (1821–1910) (p.268) • Appendices A–I (alphabetical lists by country/artist/publisher; pp.291–420) • Index (p.421).