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    • Title:The life of Napoleon : a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos / by Doctor Syntax ; embellished with thirty engravings by G. Cruikshank.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed for T. Tegg, Wm. Allason ; Edinburgh : J. Dick, 1815.
    • Physical Description:260 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: DC203.4 .L53 Copy 1
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: DC203.4 .L53 Copy 2
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in original pink boards, with printed title label on spine.. Bookplate: R.N.H. Moore. Autograph: N. Holterman.
      BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in gilt-tooled tree. P. 113 correctly numbered.
    • Notes:Frequently attributed to William Combe, but listed as an imitation in: Hamilton, Harlan W. Doctor Syntax. London, 1969.
      Printed by Plummer and Brewis, Love Lane, Eastcheap.
      Illustrated engraved title page included in leaves of plates.
      Page 83 misnumbered p. 88, p. 109 misnumbered 107, p. 113 misnumbered 213, p. 121 misunumbered 211, p. 187 misnumbered 188. Plate at p. 94 should have the word Siege misspelt "Seige of Acre", and on the plate at p. 233 "Leipsic" is misspelt "Liepsic."
    • Format:Book
    • References:Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 153
      Hamilton, H.W. Doctor Syntax, p. 318
      Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 356
    • Subjects:Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Portraits.
      Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Poetry.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1815.
      Edinburgh--Imprints--Specimens--1815.
      Tegg, T.--Publisher.
      Allason, Wm.--Publisher.
      Dick, J.--Publisher.
      Holterman, N.--Autograph. (BACRB Copy 1)
      Moore, R.N.H.--Bookplate.(BACRB Copy 1)
      Scheuer, Gloria--Provenance.
      Plummer and Brewis--Printer.
    • Genre/Form:Poems--England--19th century.
      Aquatints--Hand-colored--1815.
    • Also listed under:Combe, William, 1742-1823, attributed name.
      Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill.