An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe during the years 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815: : comprising a series of views of Paris, Moscow, the Kremlin, Dresden, Berlin, the battles of Leipsic, etc., etc., etc. ; together with a history of those momentous transactions.
Robert Bowyer (London 1758 - Byfleet 1834)
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085531
Summary
Bibliographic description
27, [21] p., 11 col. plates (some fold.) : ill. ; fol. Bound in 2 v. Collation: 27, [17] p., [12] leaves of plates; p.[29]-76, [12] p., [10] leaves of plates. Shelved and uniform with 'The campaign of Waterloo' (1816). Plates bound at front of each vol. Pencil note on front pastedown of vol. 1: "Fine Coloured Plates uncut copy 3 vols [8/10/0?]" with bookseller's code in pencil at foot of page. Provenance: 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 original grey boards; printed paper title labels on upper boards; sewn onto seven recessed cords.
Makers and roles
Robert Bowyer (London 1758 - Byfleet 1834), editor