SUPPER AT BEAUCAIRE.
Translated into English for the first time by Somerset de Chair. Pp. 38+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait; demy l6mo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in gilt with an overall honeycomb pattern surrounding a central bee emblem, the boards slightly sprung; a.e.g.; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, this being one of 100 copies thus bound, printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper, and signed by the translator. Cockalorum 166. *From the library of Sir Thomas Ramsay, with his discreet ownership stamp in blind on the upper free endpaper. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his small book label on the upper pastedown. 'A masterly manifesto written by Napoleon during his residence in Marseilles. Taking the form of a conversation between a soldier and a number of companions who discuss revolutionary topics in an inn, it had a powerful effect' [Cockalorum p. 25]. Item #162731
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