An historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands, : in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blücher, comprising the battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo; with a detailed narrative of the political events connected with those memorable conflicts, down to the surrender of Paris, and the departure of Bonaparte for St. Helena / Drawn up from the first authorities by William Mudford. Illustrated by ... official documents, and other papers, hitherto unpublished ... Embellished with a series of plates, descriptive of the country between Brussels and Charleroi from drawings ... by James Rouse, esq. Also a plan of the battles, and a map, shewing the march of the allied armies to Paris.
William Mudford (1782-1848)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3075779
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, [2], 368 p., 30 colour plates : map, plan ; 4to. Hand coloured plates. Pencil note at foot of p. viii: "Napoleon died at St. Helena May 1821". Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "A fine perfect copy. F.A.C.B.". Ephemera: loosely inserted clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (Franks 13917?): 'William Harrison'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; gilt-tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands 1815. By Mudford'; rebacked (spine retained); marbled textblock edges; marbled endpapers; green silk ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
William Mudford (1782-1848), author James Rouse (fl.1817-1827), engraver (printmaker)