Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Frank B Goodrich (Frank Boott). The court of Napoleon. Derby & Jackson, New York, 1857.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xii pages, 2 leaves, [17]-416 pages color frontispiece : color portraits. The elaborately tooled boards are clean and very good, the spine shows wear and small losses at head and foot as well as a small loss at its lowest raised band, some tears to spine apparently repaired with glue; front inner hinge cracked, rear inner hinge broken, text and plates foxed and smudged. A reading copy at best. 2580 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Frank Goodrich. The Court of Napoleon. Derby & Jackson, New York, 1857.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: : Derby & Jackson, New York, 1857. Hardcover. Condition: Good plus 1st Edition. Bound in full embossed brown morocco, spine loose but complete needs repair, the boards are fine and the signatures are loose, a superb fuill period morocco with 5 raised bands, elaborate tooling and royal N on center of front cover. Contents are fine, largely unread but with occasional offsetting from the color plates [all 16 present with tissue guards] A copy in a large 4to worthy of repair. and priced to sell Size: 4to
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Goodrich, Frank B.. The Court Of Napoleon. Derby & Jackson, 1857.
Price: US$199.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in full leather with gold decrostions.The book has rubbing to the edges and raised bands and foxing to the pages.
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oversized embossed full leather titled in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt. Light staining/rubbing to leather joints/edges, spine head mildly frayed, gilt edges rubbed. Occasional minor foxing. All plates present. ; quarto; 416 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$419.86 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, very fine condition. The court of Napoleon or society under the first empire with portraits of its beauties, wits and heroines Special Collection by Frank B. Goodrich; Jules Champagne. Published by Derby & Jackson in 1857. Hardcover. Illustrated with 16 chromolithographic portraits of notable female French aristocrats, including Empress Josephine, Madame de Stael, Caroline Bonaparte, Madame Recamier, Madame Junot and others. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Price: US$437.75 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Color frontispiece, engraved title page (in color) and regular title page, 415 pages, with fifteen beautiful hand colored full-page portraits of the remarkable women of Napoleon's court. The Cosmopolitan Art Journal in November 1856 was able to see an advance copy of this book which was limited to only 5,000 copies with a production cost of $30,000. The hand-colored illustrations are from original, life-like portraits in the Gallery of the Versailles. Bound in a heavily embossed brown morocco, upper, and lower boards centrally stamped in gilt with the N (Napoleon) and crown above, raised bands, with tile gilt, other compartments stamped in blind, marbled end papers, with closed tear to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, a few scuff marks with light wear to corners. A lovely copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Contemporary full morocco, rebacked saving the original spine and decoratively embossed boards, with gilt ?N? and crown within an ornate blind tooled design, spine in 6 compartments of raised bands, gilt title on two, all edges gilt, endpapers marbled. , Size : 4to, With 16 hand-coloured decorative lithographic plates, including frontis and engraved title, of the ladies of Napoleon?s court., P. frontis, engraved title, blank, title, printer?s imprint, iii-xii, illustration list, blank, 1-416. A very good copy in decorative gilt binding.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada