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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.
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
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