Hardcover, 28 x 20 cm, quarter sheepskin over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt lettering to flat spine with gilt fillet bands, clipping pasted to front fep verso.

Title-page: GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC — PAUL DE CASSAGNAC | ~ | HISTOIRE POPULAIRE | ILLUSTRÉE | DE | L’EMPEREUR NAPOLEON III | TOME I (II) | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. LACHAUD ET C^ie, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS | 4, PLACE DU THÉATRE-FRANÇAIS, 4 | – | Tous droits réservés ||

Collation: (v.1) π² [1]-50⁴, (v.2) π² 1-49⁴; total 400 leaves plus albumen photograph pasted to frontispiece and 96 full-page woodcuts within collation.

Pagination: [4] [1] 2-398 [2], [4] [1] 2-390 [2], ils.; total 800 pp.

Contributors:

Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (French, 1806 – 1880) – father.

Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac (French, 1843 – 1904) – son.