The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French Revolution.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAVERLY," &c. [Sir Walter Scott].

$475.00

Item Number: 139524

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827.

First edition of Sir Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon. Royal octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Napoleon. In very good condition.

Between 1826 and 1832 Scott produced six novels, two short stories and two plays, eleven works or volumes of non-fiction, and a journal, along with several unfinished works. The non-fiction included the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte in 1827, two volumes of the History of Scotland in 1829 and 1830, and four instalments of the series entitled Tales of a Grandfather – Being Stories Taken From Scottish History, written one per year over the period 1828–1831, among several others. Finally, Scott had recently been inspired by the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron, and he began keeping a journal over the period, which, however, would not be published until 1890, as The Journal of Sir Walter Scott.