(CRUIKSHANK GEORGE) [Combe Imitation William] Life of Napole

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(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE.) [Combe Imitation, William.] Life of Napoleon: A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos. 30 hand-colored engraved plates by Cruikshank, including title. 8vo, full green morocco gilt, by Hayday, joints rubbed with some surface loss; all edges trimmed and gilt; book labels of Phoenix Ingraham and Sir Edward Sullivan. London, 1817

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first edition. Sir Edward Sullivan (1822-1885), who was Attorney General for Ireland under Gladstone and later Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was a distinguished statesman and an ardent book collector. Cohn 153; Tooley 151.