Goodrich’s COURT OF NAPOLEON has the plates produced in a manner that involved multiple printing stages (as did many books from the mid-19th century). In the case of this book, McGrath (the authority on 19th-century American colour plate books) says that the plates “were prepared with a black keystone, a sepia tinting stone, and finally hand wash was touched onto each.” 416pp. Coloured frontispiece and title page plus 14 coloured plates. Quarto. Original full tan morocco, beveled edges, elaborately stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt, raised bands to spine, title in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Some occasional foxing in the margins. Contents block split at centre (cords cuts), but hinges intact. Overall a bright, very good copy. Handsomely illustrated work, with portraits of Napoleon's court, all befitting the Emperor. The plates were prepared entirely by Lemercier in Paris. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Josephine. 2. Title page. 3. Charlotte Corday. 4. Madame Roland. 5. Madame Tallien. 6. Madame Junot. 7. Madame Recamier. 8. Pauline Bonaparte. 9. Madame de Stael. 10. Caroline Bonaparte. 11. Hortense. 12. Mademoiselle Lenormand. 13. Mademoiselle du Colombier. Napoleon's first love. 14. Grace Ingersoll. 15. Madame Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely. 16. Mademoiselle Georges.