A Catalogue Of The Second Portion Of The Extensive and Valuable Library Formed By The Late A. M. Broadley, Esq. Of The Knapp, Bradpole, Dorset (Sold By Order Of The Executor) Comprising the Napoleon Collection Of Books, Autographs and Engravings (1916) Sold at Hodgson & Co Auction House
 
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Alexander Meyrick Broadley was born on the 19th July 1847 in Bradpole, where his father was the vicar. From his birth in this Dorset village he went on to lead an extremely eventful life becoming embroiled in scandals, earning the enmity of the Prince of Wales and defending the leader of an Egyptian uprising.
 
The last fifteen years of Broadley's life were devoted to writing and book collecting, Napoleon and his age being at the heart of it, but also a large collection of works on criminal jurisprudence. He made significant acquisitions of manuscript material, accumulating original letters and documents, as his book Chats on Autographs related. His library included 135 works he had "grangerized" by adding additional illustrations, amounting to about 600 volumes.
 
Never married, Broadley died, in the middle of the First World War, on 16 April 1916 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
 
Soft Cover
85 pages
In Poor to Fair Condition- The Item needs to rebound. A great project