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Property of a lady - Napoleonic historical interest - BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick, and ROSE, John Holland - 'Dumouriez and the Defence of England against Napoleon' - two volume set, the personal 'Extra-Illustrated' or 'Grangerized' (or 'Grangerised') copies of Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916), London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1909, with tipped-in invoice from William Brendon & Son Limited Printers, Plymouth, dated 7th Sept. 1908 for £2 - - 'To one special copy pulled upon large paper, also 200 folio plain sheets', extra-illustrated or augmented with a large quantity of contemporarily hand-coloured and monochrome cartoon or caricature satirical prints, original drawings & watercolours, printed broadsides, etc., each affixed at the edges only into a window cut in to each plain folio sheet (so that backs are open & visible), Volume One including six tipped-in manuscript letters from Herbert H. Raphael (Major Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Baronet, 1859–1924) and twenty-six tipped-in manuscript letters from John Holland Rose (1855-1942) and two manuscript letters (one being four-sided) from Field Marshal Lord Roberts (1832-1914), and many other ms letters including some from Cambrai (Cambray), France (where Dumouriez was born), and the publishers (including the original contract between the authors and the publishers), all regarding the book and its compilation, also including twelve original ink manuscript letters by the subject of the book Charles Francois du Perier Dumouriez (1739-1823) (a further 16 letters by him are in Volume Two), the first dated 1765, the second (four sided) from Versailles dated 1772, the third (four sided) dated 1782, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth all dated 1792 when Dumouriez was Ministre des Affairs Etrangeres, Ministre de la Guerre, and Chef de L'Armee du Nord, an important ink manuscript letter from Dumouriez dated 1793 (two sided) consulting Charles James Fox on finding refuge in London (with letter from the dealer P.F. Madigan in Fifth Avenue, New York, regarding Boardley's purchase of this letter for $40), another ms letter from Dumouriez (two sided) dated 1796, and another from Antoine-Marie Chamans de Lavallette (Directeur General des Postes under Napoleon), the prints including Piercy Roberts after George Murgatroyd Woodward - 'John Bull and His Friends Commemorating The Peace' (1802); 'A Cock and Bull Story' (1803), published by Percy Roberts; a small pencil drawing portrait of Dumouriez initialled J.D. and dated 9 Oct. '69; 'La Retour en Angleterre' (we can find no record of this print); 'Carte des Descentes Faites en Angleterre et en Irlande Depuis Guillaume la Conquérant jusqu'à nos jours' (Map of the Invasions of England and Ireland from William the Conqueror to the Present) (1798), hand-coloured, with accompanying text; 'Capture of Bonaparte's Carriage', published by Edwards, 1818; a signed watercolour by G. Heberden entitled 'Genl. Dumouriez marching the Sans Culottes into Holland', 19.5 by 32.5cms.; 'A Dose for Dumourier, Evacuation of Holland and Brabant' (monochrome); and James Gillray - 'Dumourier dining in state at St James's, on the 15th of May, 1793' (monochrome), Volume Two including numerous broadsides or notices, some anti-Napoleon propaganda, one a folding monochrome broadside entitled 'An ABSTRACT of An Act for providing an Augmentation to the MILITIA, to be trained and exercised in the Manner therein directed; and for enabling His Majesty to cause the same to be embodied, in case of Necessity, for the Defence of these Kingdoms', printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1796; lists of recruited foreign soldiers, etc.; an 'Army of Reserve Act' broadside for the Parish of St. Clement Danes, dated 1803; a Jan Kip folded engraving of Lulworth Castle entitled 'Lullworth Castle in Dorsetshire, The Seat of Humphry Weld'; other folding maps; several printed patriotic song scores of the period; a ms autograph ink sheet entitled 'Verses written on the threatened Invasion', by B. Atkinson of Bath'; a contemporary 60-page plus index ink ms booklet entitled 'Internal Defence of Essex', listing the names & number of carts & horses for each village or town to be called upon in the event of invasion; a printed list of 'Loyal Colchester Volunteers', dated July 1803; this second volume also includes a further 16 ink ms letters by Dumouriez dating from 1804 to 1822; and much more (helpfully, Broadley added a ms index of the extra illustrations); each volume approximately 20.5 by 14ins. (52 by 35.5cms.) (overall) (2). Footnote - Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916) was a British author, barrister, collector and social figure, known for defending Ahmed 'Urabi after the Urabi Revolt. Broadley penned numerous historical works later in life, particularly regarding Napoleon and his era. Among the works he authored or co-authored are 'Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror' (London, 1908); 'Nelson’s Hardy: His Life, Letters and Friends' (London, 1909); 'Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821' (London, 1911); and 'Napoleon in Exile' (London, 1914). Broadley was known as a celebrated grangeriser (or extra-illustrator) of books, and one of his greatest achievements was the creation, with the assistance of Daniell, of an extra-illustrated set of Rose’s 'Life of Napoleon I' and Rosebery’s 'Napoleon. The Last Phase', by inlaying and extending the works from three octavo to twenty-eight folio volumes with engravings, portraits, manuscripts, autograph letters, etc. over a period of four years. This monumental work was bought by George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston at the auction of Broadley’s library held in four sales between 1916 and 1918, and Curzon later bequeathed the set to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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