![SMITH, Charles Hamilton (1776-1859). Costume of the Army of the British Empire, according to the latest regulations, 1814. Designed by an officer of the staff. London: W. Bulmer for Colnaghi and Co., [1812]-1815.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/CKS/2000_CKS_06417_0143_000(020730).jpg?w=1)
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SMITH, Charles Hamilton (1776-1859). Costume of the Army of the British Empire, according to the latest regulations, 1814. Designed by an officer of the staff. London: W. Bulmer for Colnaghi and Co., [1812]-1815.
2° (422 x 323mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved dedication, 54 plates aquatinted by I.C. Stadler after C. Hamilton Smith, hand-coloured and heightened with gold, and 6 hand-coloured engraved plates showing regimental colours. Plates watermarked J. Whatman 1811. (Occasional light browning and slight thumb-soiling.) Later 19th-century red half morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Earl of Carysfort, Elton Hall, 1894 (bookplate, shelf-mark).
FINE COPY, WITH WIDE MARGINS, OF A WORK DEPICTING THE BRITISH ARMY AT A CRUCIAL PERIOD IN HISTORY. The earliest plates are dated March 1812 and the last June 1815, the work having first appeared in 15 parts with 4 plates in each. Ogilby notes that in the parts issue the date of the 'Last Regulations' is 1812, whereas in the bound edition this is altered to 1814. Smith served in the army between 1797 and 1820. A writer on military history, he used his artistic ability to good effect in several works on British costume, besides establishing a reputation as an artist/naturalist. He retired to Plymouth where all three of his daughters fell in love with the poet, Walter Savage Landor. Brunet II, 324; Colas 2754; Hiler p. 803; Lipperheide Qh10; Ogilby 870; Tooley 456; Vinet 2195.
2° (422 x 323mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved dedication, 54 plates aquatinted by I.C. Stadler after C. Hamilton Smith, hand-coloured and heightened with gold, and 6 hand-coloured engraved plates showing regimental colours. Plates watermarked J. Whatman 1811. (Occasional light browning and slight thumb-soiling.) Later 19th-century red half morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Earl of Carysfort, Elton Hall, 1894 (bookplate, shelf-mark).
FINE COPY, WITH WIDE MARGINS, OF A WORK DEPICTING THE BRITISH ARMY AT A CRUCIAL PERIOD IN HISTORY. The earliest plates are dated March 1812 and the last June 1815, the work having first appeared in 15 parts with 4 plates in each. Ogilby notes that in the parts issue the date of the 'Last Regulations' is 1812, whereas in the bound edition this is altered to 1814. Smith served in the army between 1797 and 1820. A writer on military history, he used his artistic ability to good effect in several works on British costume, besides establishing a reputation as an artist/naturalist. He retired to Plymouth where all three of his daughters fell in love with the poet, Walter Savage Landor. Brunet II, 324; Colas 2754; Hiler p. 803; Lipperheide Qh10; Ogilby 870; Tooley 456; Vinet 2195.
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