Costume of the army of the British Empire, : according to the last regulations, 1814. / Designed by an officer on the staff.
Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100890
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2] leaves, [61] leaves of plates : col. ill. (aquatints) ; fol. Shelved and uniform with 2 vol. 'Military costume of Europe' (1812-1815?). Ephemera: nineteenth-century newspaper cuttings on military matters pasted onto three pages of front free endpapers. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (arms of Pauncefort Duncombe impaling Lambart) (not in Franks): 'Pauncefort Duncombe of Brickhill Manor, Bucks.' [i.e. Philip Duncombe Pauncefort-Duncombe (1784-1849) married, in 1813, Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 1924: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century gilt and blind panelled calf; spine gilt and blind tooled, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Costum of the army'; gilt rolled at corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), artist Joseph Constantine Stadler (b.Germany - fl. London 1780-1812), aquatinter