ORME, Edward (publisher).
Costume of the Russian Army.
Costume of the Russian Army.
from a collection of drawings made on the spot. and now in the possession of The Right Honourable The Earl of Kinnaird containing a portrait of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias.
Stock Code 114115
London, Edward Orme, 1814
A fine collection of Russian military costumes. Colas suggests that the plates could be by Alexander Orlowski on stylistic grounds. The plates are as follows:
1. The Body Guard.
2. Foot Guards.
3. Chasseur Guards.
4. Guard at Night.
5. Infantry.
6. A Sailor.
7. A Soldier of the Police.
8. A Cossack.
Second issue; folio (37.5 x 28 cm); 8 hand-coloured engraved plates, engraved portrait frontispiece (dated 1814), title and dedication leaves, 'MN Bibliotheque militaire' blue stamp on front free endpaper, frontispiece just starting to come away from stub, otherwise internally a fine copy; later red cloth, flat spine lettered in gilt, a touch of rubbing to extremities.
Colas 735; Lipperheide 1347.
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