Costume of the army of the British Empire,
according to the last regulations, 1814. Designed by an officer on the staff.
Stock Code 112158
London, printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for Colnaghi and Co., 1812-1815.
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Charles Smith's survey of the military uniforms of the Army of the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fifty-four of the plates depict an individual soldier often in a military pose and the remaining six plates are of facings.
First edition; folio, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I.C. Stadler after Smith, very occasional mark, lacking title, original upper wrapper to part 1 of 'Ancient Costume of England' erroneously bound in at beginning, modern red half morocco, a clean, fresh, very good copy.
Bobins 391; Colas 2754; Tooley 456.
First edition; folio, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I.C. Stadler after Smith, very occasional mark, lacking title, original upper wrapper to part 1 of 'Ancient Costume of England' erroneously bound in at beginning, modern red half morocco, a clean, fresh, very good copy.
Bobins 391; Colas 2754; Tooley 456.
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