EDWARD ORME (1775-1848) AND FRANCIS WILLIAM BLAGDON (c.1777-1819)

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EDWARD ORME (1775-1848) AND FRANCIS WILLIAM BLAGDON (c.1777-1819)
Orme's Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horatio Nelson. London: Edward Orme, 1806. 4° (360 x 260mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, and 14 engravings (of 15, one supplied in facsimile 'Nelson's Interment in St. Paul's Cathedral'), 4 of these HAND-COLOURED, 3 double page and one folding. (Spotting to a few leaves). Contemporary quarter calf (spine repaired, extremities rubbed). Orme's engravings include a hand-coloured view after Turner of Nelson's funeral procession by water, showing St. Paul's and London Bridge, and a hand-coloured plan of attack for the Battle of Trafalgar, with Nelson explaining the plan to his officers. Abbey 328.

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EDWARD ORME (1775-1848) AND FRANCIS WILLIAM BLAGDON (c.1777-1819)
Orme's Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horatio Nelson. London: Edward Orme, 1806.
£500-800

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