The Second Funeral of Napoleon: in Three Letters to Miss Smith of London and The Chronicle of the Drum. By Mr. M.A. Titmarsh. London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. 16mo (138 x 113 mm). [iv], 122, [1] ad pp. 4 full-page woodcuts. Original gray pictorial wrappers. Red full morocco slipcase. Wrappers a little soiled and darkened. Provenance: Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (her sale, Christie's New York, February 6, 1981). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. This is the true first with six lines of shading on Napoleon's cheek on the front wrapper and 5 asterisks on p 120. This was a favorite work of Edward Fitzgerald and rare in original wrappers. "It is most important to have the cover, as the illustration on it was by Thackeray, and has not been reprinted. It is interesting to compare this sketch of Napoleon with that, also by Thackeray, [in] 'Comic Tales and Sketches,' published the same year" (Van Duzer 193).
The Second Funeral of Napoleon: in Three Letters to Miss Smith of London and The Chronicle of the Drum. By Mr. M.A. Titmarsh. London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. 16mo (138 x 113 mm). [iv], 122, [1] ad pp. 4 full-page woodcuts. Original gray pictorial wrappers. Red full morocco slipcase. Wrappers a little soiled and darkened. Provenance: Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (her sale, Christie's New York, February 6, 1981). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. This is the true first with six lines of shading on Napoleon's cheek on the front wrapper and 5 asterisks on p 120. This was a favorite work of Edward Fitzgerald and rare in original wrappers. "It is most important to have the cover, as the illustration on it was by Thackeray, and has not been reprinted. It is interesting to compare this sketch of Napoleon with that, also by Thackeray, [in] 'Comic Tales and Sketches,' published the same year" (Van Duzer 193).
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