NAPOLEON engraved by W. Hall after F.Gerard antique print c1833.

$165.00

Antique print. Emperor Napoleon published by Charles Knight.

Fine stipple and steel engraved portrait of Napoleon by engraver, lithographer and copperplate printer W. Hall, From a Picture by F. Gérard in the pofsession of the Publisher, Charles Knight. Published c1833 by Charles Knight & Co. Ludgate, London (with fine later hand-colour).

Charles Knight was said to be "a multifaceted man of letters in the pre-specialist early nineteenth-century sense of the term: that is, a scholar, an author, a critic and according to Carlyle 'our most important modern person' ". His career as a popular educator and publisher spanned nearly sixty years, from 1812 to 1869.

Page size: 260 x 175mm (10 1/4 x 7 inches) the small engraving measures 130 x 105mm (5 1/8 x 4 1/8 inches). This engraving has faint soiling around the edges of the page.