Scott's The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and Two Volumes of Sloane's Biography

Sir Walter Scott. THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (9) volumes (complete). Edinburgh and London: Printed by Ballantyne and Co., for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and Cadell & Co., 1827. Second edition. Gilt-stamped speckled leather boards, rebacked(?), with marbled and fresh endpapers. 8vo; 348; 399; 350; 381; 415; 381; 623; 518; 338, [clxxxvii]pp. Vol. II with errata. (Age and shelf wear to boards, some with staining; interiors with hinge cracking, occasional gutter cracking, damp stains, and loose leaves; an occasional partially uncut leaf; vol. IX with some additional wear.)

William Milligan Sloane. THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Vols. II and III only. New York: The Century Co. and London: Macmillan & Co., 1896. Publisher's original gilt and blind-stamped red cloth-covered boards, with gilt top edge. 4to; vol. II (283pp.); vol. III (270pp.). Illustrated. Bookplate of Wilford Neville Lloyd (likely Colonel Lloyd (British, 1855-1935)). (Some wear and sunning to boards; spines slightly cocked with slight separation from text block at head; interior with toning, offsetting, scattered foxing and damp staining, occasional gutter cracking, and general age and handling wear.)

Each 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.; each 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.

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