[Rarebooks] fs: Napoleon is Ded...

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Tue Jan 4 14:19:57 EST 2005


St. M. Watson, G.L.de.

THE STORY OF NAPOLEON'S DEATH MASK TOLD FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

London; John Lane: 1915.
Edition limited to 500 copies.

An attempt to clear up the century-old controversy over the authenticity of 
the "competing" Napoleon death masks which only succeeded in muddying the 
waters further. Watson dismisses the Antommarchi mask as a copy of the 
Burton mask, a theory with which at least some contemporary experts agree, 
and tirelessly works out a timetable for Burton which allows his mask to be 
genuine, if damaged and unreliable. He then, however, makes a case for the 
so-called "Sankey Cast", purportedly taken by artist Joseph William 
Rubidge, who also sketched the dead emperor on his death bed. Experts today 
regard the Sankey/Rubidge cast as the least likely of any to be authentic, 
but Watson put up a good fight... An intriguing book on this rather 
esoteric, if contentious, subject.

Hardcover. 6"x9", x, [2] 208 pages; 6 b/w plates; minor cover scuffing, 
tips worn, name erased from rear endpaper resulting in a few pinholes; else 
a very nice copy. [05019] $250.00


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