MILITARY HEROES that have Distinguished Themselves during the Late War Embellished with Equestrian Portraits

Published by R. Miller in London c. 1816
SKU: 58487
£275.00
12mo. hardback in full contemporary calf with raised bands, red title label, decorative gilt to spine and gilt dentelles. Binding by W. Worsfold, London. Engraved title page with hand-coloured vignette plus 13 engraved pages, each with a hand-coloured vignette of a hero on his horse (includes the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of York, Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg [sic], and Field Marshall Blucher). Plus 12pp. Publisher's Catalogue at end. Small, elegant contemporary ink signature (Florence Jane Bell) to top of title page. Later engraved bookplate to front pastedown. Very slight rubbing to spine edges, else a VERY GOOD, HANDSOME COPY.

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