4 vols: vi+456pp, 478pp, 494pp, 485pp. VG contemporary cloth, some wear to top and bottom of spines, ex-lib with the usual markings. One of the most important nineteenth-century biographies. An influential journalist, Lanfrey was 'the first to attempt an impartial biography that was more than simply a polemical account...based primarily on the CORRESPONDANCE, it was well researched and scholarly...his work did much to destroy the Napoleonic legend.'--Leigh Ann Whaley