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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manycats, post: 1781050, member: 13761&quot;]Not Cooper&#039;s signature, just someone noting that he&#039;s the author - I assume his name is not on the title page? Incidentally, the first edition was in two volumes, with a two-in-one reprint a year later.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think your &#039;vote tally&#039; slip is someone working out a mirror-image cryptogram with Empereur, which is French for &#039;Emperor&#039;, referring to Napoleon, as Figtree3 implies; perhaps later supporters wishing the return of the monarchy, which was of particular import in 1848, a year of upheaval in Europe. The fact that the book is from 1847 would lend some credence to this assumption.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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