Life of Prince Talleyrand: Accompanied With A Portrait (Two Books Containing Four Volumes) (Only volumes for sale on the Internet)

Charles-Maxime Catherinet de Villemarest

Edité par Edward Churton, 26 Holles Street, London, 1834

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First Edition (NAP, 1834 on the title page). I have scoured the Internet without finding even one other of the original volumes published in London by Edward Churton. The author's name is not given in the book. I had to look that up. The first book contains Volume I and Volume II. The second book Volume III and IV. The two books were previously owned by a John Gerard Heckscher. His bookplate with his printed name is neatly affixed to the front inside cover of both books. John Gerard Heckscher fought in the Civil War under the command of General George B. McClellan. McClellan's son, George B. McClellan, Jr. married Heckscher's daughter Georgiana Louise Heckscher. McClellan, Jr. was the Mayor of New York from 1904 to 1909. He also made a very unsuccessful attempt to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. John Gerard Hecksche was the Founder of the National Horse Show Association and played a leading role in its success. Volume I has a frontispiece of Prince Talleyrand, followed by the title page, followed by Contents pages iii to xiv. This volume has 378 pages. The last page is followed by the title page for Volume II, then the Contents pages iii to xv. Volume II runs 352 pages. The Contents pages in Volume III follow the title page and run from iii to xvi. This Volume has 335 pages. After the title page to Volume IV its Contents pages also run from iii to xvi, and Volume IV has 328 pages. There was definitely a need for an Errata sheet: the last page, which has at its bottom 'End Of The Fourth And Last Volume' is mis-numbered '248'. It follows page 327. The page is the correct one (the last line on page 327 is picked up on 248) so only the number is wrong. Maybe they started celebrating a little too early. You can see the marbled covers of both books in the photos. The rear cover of Volume I-II is cleanly detached. It also has a thin tear down a ways from its top corner and a little chip at its outer edge. You can see the covers have some rubbing over parts of the marbled design. Both covers of Volume III-IV are firmly attached as is the front cover of I-II. Parts of the cover edges of both books have rubbing and rub-through. The corners all have rub-through. There is a small area of loss at the juncture between the spine and front cover just off the top edge of Volume III-IV. All three page edges are yellow. The top ones have lost some of the brightness of the yellow.The top page edge of Volume III-IV has a few darkish spots that don't appear to have affected the pages. There is a thin space or crack between the two front end papers in Volume I-II and a very thin one between the front inside cover and front end paper in Volume III-IV. Nowhere else. With one exception (two consecutive pages are only bound over their first inch off the top edge) both books are very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout. The books are square and their spines are straight. In both books there is a bit of foxing on the second blank front end papers (and at the margins of the frontispiece in Volume I-II), but none in the text of either book. The pages of both books are very clean. Scrolling through, I found only a very small number of small spots in each. Referencing both books, there are some minor imperfections, minor given the age of the book: the paper is supple but thin, there are some teeny tiny losses of the tips of corners, three consecutive pages have a 2 inch tear over the print, there's an occasional edge tear, an occasional very small edge loss, and some light corner creasing. There were two separate abrasions to the middle page edge of Volume III-IV creating a small edge tear (far from the print) on around seventy consecutive pages, a few of these have a tiny loss. There are no markings in the book. There is one short penned line at the margin of one page. No other writing beside the aforementioned signatures. And no attachments other than the aforementioned bookplates.

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• Titre: Life of Prince Talleyrand: Accompanied With A Portrait (Two Books Containing Four Volumes) (Only volumes for sale on the Internet)
• Éditeur: Edward Churton, 26 Holles Street, London
• Date de parution: 1834
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Good
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