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[BONAPARTE, Napoleon (1769-1821), subject]. [CHAMPAGNE, Jules, illustrator]. GOODRICH, Frank B. (1826-1894). The Court of Napoleon or Society Under the First Empire… New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. 4to. Illustrated with 16 chromolithographic portraits (including the frontispiece and title-page) of members of Napoleon’s court. [xiv], [1]-416, [2, blank] pp. Approximately 11 x 7 ½”. Bound in publisher’s elaborate full brown morocco, boards ruled and decoratively paneled in dark brown, with gilt central motif of a crowned “N”, spine ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, all edges gilt (rebacked to style in modern brown morocco, new endleaves and headbands, some soiling, minor wear to boards, minor occasional thumbsoiling in text and plates). Fine. FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS.