THE SUBSTANCE OF SOME LETTERS: Written by an Englishman at Paris during the Last Reign of the Emperor Napoleon by John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton - 1816

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-25. Paperback. Good.

London: Ridgways, 1816. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Volume II of II, 253, 135pp, appendix in French of speeches, letters, etc., full- leather tooled at extremities and cover edges, outer hinges split, not cracked, text clean, with no foxing. Overall, a tight, bright copy. Set was published anonymously, but has since been attributed to the present author..

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Substance of some Letters written from Paris during the Last Reign of the Emperor Napoleon ... With an appendix of official documents. Third edition, vol. II.

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia: M. Thomas, 1816. First American edn. 8vo, pp. vii, 348, cxix (appendix in the original French). Leather. Ex library with bookplate. . Cover worn, front detached. Little foxing here and there. Title little torn at edges, but not into text. Interior solid. S&S 39029. Hobhouse was a British administrator and liberal pamphleteer. From personal observation wrote an account of the Hundred Days (1816).

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Ridgways, 1817. Third Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 3rd edition. Volume 2 only. 491 pages. Red leather binding. Marbled boards. Leather is a little rubbed with the odd foxing spot . generally very good.

LONDON, RIDGWAYS, 1816. FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUMES, FULL TREE CALF, GILT TITLES, RED LABELS, NINETEENTH CENTURY BOOKPLATE, FRONT HINGE A LITTLE WEAK BUT VERY GOOD.

London: Printed For Ridgways, By T.Davison, 1816., 1816. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, 490; 1 p.l., 253, [1 leaf], 135, [1]errata. lacking half-titles? 19th century ribbed calf, rebacked (occasional hint of foxing). armorial bookplate of John Waldie. First Edition of Hobhouse's account of the 'Hundred Days', in which he displays his strong dislike of the Bourbon dynasty and sympathy with Napoleon. The work raised a storm of indignation among the majority of Englishmen, Croker attacking it as one of the most infamous libels ever written.. F.