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ORME, Edward, editor and publisher. Historic, Military and Naval Anecdotes of ... particular incidents ... in the last long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo. London: Edward Orme, 1819.
4° (355 x 295mm). 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates, the majority after J.A. Atkinson, others after Manskirch, J.H. Clark, W. Heath, G. Scharf, Dubourg and Rigaud. (Plates and text mounted on guards, some light offsetting, particularly to the final plate, marginal soiling and scattered spotting, a few marginal tears.) Modern black morocco, spine gilt, uncut.
FIRST ISSUE, with the title dated and plates on paper watermarked J. Whatman, 1812-16. In his address to the reader, Orme describes his patriotic aim as being 'to see recorded and embellished by the Fine Arts, those particular exploits of personal valour -- together with their attendant dangers, difficulties, and privations, the surmounting of which has shed a lustre upon the British name, unexampled in the history of former ages.' Abbey Life 376; Tooley 352.
4° (355 x 295mm). 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates, the majority after J.A. Atkinson, others after Manskirch, J.H. Clark, W. Heath, G. Scharf, Dubourg and Rigaud. (Plates and text mounted on guards, some light offsetting, particularly to the final plate, marginal soiling and scattered spotting, a few marginal tears.) Modern black morocco, spine gilt, uncut.
FIRST ISSUE, with the title dated and plates on paper watermarked J. Whatman, 1812-16. In his address to the reader, Orme describes his patriotic aim as being 'to see recorded and embellished by the Fine Arts, those particular exploits of personal valour -- together with their attendant dangers, difficulties, and privations, the surmounting of which has shed a lustre upon the British name, unexampled in the history of former ages.' Abbey Life 376; Tooley 352.
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