The life of Napoleon
Subtitle: a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos
By: by Doctor Syntax [i.e. W. Combe], embellished with thirty engravings by G. Cruikshank
Contributors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Taffin, A., binder; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: T. Tegg, Wm. Allason; J. Dick
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Portraits, caricatures; Poetry
Notes: Illustrated t.p. included in the "thirty engravings."

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Late nineteenth-century French binding of full green goatskin; gold-tooled on upper and lower covers with a frame of Napoleonic devices; spine, gilt in compartments, with five raised bands, four of which correspond to sewing supports; wide gold-tooled turn-ins; board edges gilt with a double-line fillet; marbled endpapers; ribbon marker; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; three-color silk endband sewn with a front bead; signed by. A. Taffin at the tail end of the upper turn-in.