Description
Letters of a young diplomatist and soldier during the time of Napoleon, giving an account of the dispute between the emperor and the elector of Hesse By Ralph Heathcote 1907 John Lane (London), 6 x 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled, gilt-ruled boards over burgundy leather spine and tips, five raised bands and gilt ruling and decoration to spine, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, title page printed in black and red ink, illustrated with full-page engravings (a total of 20 plates, including frontispiece and portraits), xxiii, [2], 296 pp. Slight to moderate soiling and rubbing to covers. Slight, mostly marginal foxing to front and rear prelims. Moderate fore margin staining to a couple of pages. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon issue, in a leather binding which gives a splendid shelf appearance. Ralph Heathcote (1721–1795) was an English cleric and writer.
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