Author: Charles Bigot
Title: Gloires Et Souvenirs Militaires
Description: Paris, Librairie Hatchette et Cie, 1898. Leather. A beautifully illustrated historical work containing information on a range of French military figures, written by Charles Bigot with numerous colour plates. Quatrieme Edition.Bound in quarter-morocco on cloth boards. Illustrations include a colour frontispiece, twenty-three colour plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. This is an informative work on various important military figures in France, including Gunner Bricard, Marshal Bugeaud, Captain Coignet, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Written by Charles Bigot, this text borrows heavily from each of the figure's own memoirs. Charles Jules Bigot (1840-1893) was a French writer, teacher, art critic, and journalist. Bigot was briefly prefect of Indre between September and November 1870. He was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1887. With an illustrated bookplate on front paste down and a prize bookplate from Societe Nationale des Professeurs de Francais en Angleterre to front endpaper. These belong to Charles Edward Dunscomb Bridge, who was a British Army Captain for the Royal Artillery from 1916 to 1917.Collated, complete. Bound in quarter-morocco on cloth boards. Externally, very smart. Light wear to extremities and spine, with a bit of rubbing to raised bands of joints. A few marks to boards, with particular marks and fading to rear board. Prior owner's illustrated bookplate to front paste down, with prize bookplate to front endpaper. Front hinge is starting. Front endpapers, free endpapers, and frontispiece has detached from binding. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very clean with light age-toning to pages. The first few pages of text are beginning to detach from the binding. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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