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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT NAPOLEON I. Memoirs... Edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vol., NUMBER 35 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 image 1
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT NAPOLEON I. Memoirs... Edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vol., NUMBER 35 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 image 2
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT
NAPOLEON I. Memoirs... Edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vol., NUMBER 35 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945

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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT

NAPOLEON I. Memoirs... Edited by Somerset de Chair, 2 vol., NUMBER 35 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an overall edition limited to 500, signed by the editor, title-page vignette by John Buckland Wright, portrait, untrimmed in original two-tone morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, left-hand green panels with 9 vertical gilt rules, right-hand dark red panels with gilt Napoleonic bees, gilt lettered spines with bee and cockerel tools and 2 raised bands, morocco turn-ins and map endpapers (slightly browned at edges), t.e.g., folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945

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