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Coronation of S. M. l'Empereur Napoléon (Le) dans l'église métropolitaine de Paris, le XI frimaire an XIII, dimanche 2 décembre 1804. Paris, circa 1810-1815, small 39-pl. broadside, English binding circa 1830, eggplant long-grained morocco, succession of gilt and cold frames on the boards with eagles, bees and N in the inner lace, Napoleonic arms in the center, ribbed spine decorated with the same symbolic motifs, bold and lean inner fillets, bright pink moire linings and endpapers, gilt edges, modern plexiglas folder. Very rare suite of engravings intended to illustrate the coronation narrative. This book fell victim to the overzealousness of its designers, who wanted to match the sumptuousness of the volumes published for the coronations of Louis XIV and Louis XV; when Napoleon fell, it was still unfinished. Under the Restoration, Louis XVIII offered a few copies to the Imprimerie Royale, often with different layouts, in sheets or bound, and the book fell into oblivion. The volume presented here is complete with the 39 plates intended for illustration, printed before the letter, a particularly rare condition. The first title plate differs from the one described by Monglond (Bibliographie des livres publiés sous la Révolution et l'Empire): in the cartouche where Monglond describes the imperial couple in a chariot, we have Napoleon placing the crown on Josephine's head. Seven large figures depict different scenes of the day; the following ones portray figures in ceremonial costume. They are engraved by a host of the finest engravers after Isabey, Percier and Fontaine. A very precious copy bound for Pauline Bonaparte, with handwritten inscription from the first half of the 19th century: Pauline Bonaparte copy, Proofs (i.e. state of proofs) on the first endpaper. It seems to have passed before or after Pauline's death into the collections of friends Lord and Lady Holland. Montholon saw the book on a visit to Holland House in 1821. He was moved and wrote to his hosts: "to see the number and quality of the innumerable souvenirs and reminders of what was the glory of the Emperor (...) but especially the discovery of the work, now magnificently bound by your care, of the Coronation of His Majesty on December 2, 1804...". (letter in private hands). According to research by a previous owner, Henry Fox Stangways, Earl of Ilchester, a cousin, inherited Lady Holland's estate in 1845. In an estate list from 1959 - after the death of the 6th Earl of Ilchester - we find works spared by the flames following the German bombardment in 1940 that destroyed Holland House, the Boxer Codex of 1501, but also, the Rite of the Emperor... It still appears after the death of the 7th Earl of Ilchester in 1964 in the estate inventory.-Some foxing.

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Coronation of S. M. l'Empereur Napoléon (Le) dans l'église métropolitaine de Paris, le XI frimaire an XIII, dimanche 2 décembre 1804. Paris, circa 1810-1815, small 39-pl. broadside, English binding circa 1830, eggplant long-grained morocco, succession of gilt and cold frames on the boards with eagles, bees and N in the inner lace, Napoleonic arms in the center, ribbed spine decorated with the same symbolic motifs, bold and lean inner fillets, bright pink moire linings and endpapers, gilt edges, modern plexiglas folder. Very rare suite of engravings intended to illustrate the coronation narrative. This book fell victim to the overzealousness of its designers, who wanted to match the sumptuousness of the volumes published for the coronations of Louis XIV and Louis XV; when Napoleon fell, it was still unfinished. Under the Restoration, Louis XVIII offered a few copies to the Imprimerie Royale, often with different layouts, in sheets or bound, and the book fell into oblivion. The volume presented here is complete with the 39 plates intended for illustration, printed before the letter, a particularly rare condition. The first title plate differs from the one described by Monglond (Bibliographie des livres publiés sous la Révolution et l'Empire): in the cartouche where Monglond describes the imperial couple in a chariot, we have Napoleon placing the crown on Josephine's head. Seven large figures depict different scenes of the day; the following ones portray figures in ceremonial costume. They are engraved by a host of the finest engravers after Isabey, Percier and Fontaine. A very precious copy bound for Pauline Bonaparte, with handwritten inscription from the first half of the 19th century: Pauline Bonaparte copy, Proofs (i.e. state of proofs) on the first endpaper. It seems to have passed before or after Pauline's death into the collections of friends Lord and Lady Holland. Montholon saw the book on a visit to Holland House in 1821. He was moved and wrote to his hosts: "to see the number and quality of the innumerable souvenirs and reminders of what was the glory of the Emperor (...) but especially the discovery of the work, now magnificently bound by your care, of the Coronation of His Majesty on December 2, 1804...". (letter in private hands). According to research by a previous owner, Henry Fox Stangways, Earl of Ilchester, a cousin, inherited Lady Holland's estate in 1845. In an estate list from 1959 - after the death of the 6th Earl of Ilchester - we find works spared by the flames following the German bombardment in 1940 that destroyed Holland House, the Boxer Codex of 1501, but also, the Rite of the Emperor... It still appears after the death of the 7th Earl of Ilchester in 1964 in the estate inventory.-Some foxing.

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