Oakley Williams (Ed) - In the Wake of Napoleon

London, The Bodley Head Limited, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A first English edition of the memoirs of Ferdinand Von Funck, edited by Oakley Williams. Complete with twelve monochrome plates. The full title reads: 'In the Wake of Napoleon. Being the Memoirs (1807-1809) of Ferdinand Von Funck, Lieutenant-General in the Saxon Army and Adjutant-General to the King of Saxony. From the Hitherto Unpublished Mss in the Saxon Archives, Edited and Selected From the German Version by Oakley Williams' Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck was a Saxon general-lieutenant who fought against, and then alongside, Napoleon. Rather that setting the work out chronologically, Funck chose to write his memoirs as a series of individual essays. In a red cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some wear to the extremities and light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate of Thomas Lord to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with some spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages and the foredge. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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