MILLER, Robert (publisher). The Garland or thirteen extracts with colored vignettes for rewards. London: R. Miller, ca. 1820. 12° (133 x 82mm). Text engraved throughout with 13 hand-coloured engraved vignettes, contemporary road backed boards (worn), and including 12 (only, of 13) engraved cards with hand-coloured engraved vignettes, unbound as issued. -- and 6 others published by R. Miller including Military Heroes that have distinguished themselves during the late wars (ca. 1820) and Costumes or a short sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Principal Foreign Inhabitants of the Globe (ca. 1821). (7)

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MILLER, Robert (publisher). The Garland or thirteen extracts with colored vignettes for rewards. London: R. Miller, ca. 1820. 12° (133 x 82mm). Text engraved throughout with 13 hand-coloured engraved vignettes, contemporary road backed boards (worn), and including 12 (only, of 13) engraved cards with hand-coloured engraved vignettes, unbound as issued. -- and 6 others published by R. Miller including Military Heroes that have distinguished themselves during the late wars (ca. 1820) and Costumes or a short sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Principal Foreign Inhabitants of the Globe (ca. 1821). (7)

Lot Essay

Robert Miller specialised in engraved publications and what he called "Fancy Articles". The Garland, like the other books in the above lot, typifies one line of business in which he engraved groups of individual subjects which could then be published in book form or issued seperately on cards as "extracts with coloured vignettes for rewards".

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