The battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, described by the series of accounts published by authority, with circumstantial details. By a near observer. Also important particulars, communicated by staff, and regimental officers, serving in different parts of the field, with every connected official document; forming an historical record of the campaign in the Netherlands, 1815; from the testimony of eye-witnesses, and of those who had the honour to share in its operations. To which is added a register of the names of the officers employed, ... Illustrated with the portraits of Field-Marshals Wellington and Blucher, maps and enlarged plans, ... and thirty-four etchings ... by George Jones.
Booth, John (1768-1840)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 3232677
Summary
Bibliographic description
Tenth edition, enlarged and corrected. 2 v (in 1), plates : front. (ports.), ill. (1 col.) fold. col. maps, fold. plans ; 28cm (4to). Numbered in pencil on pastedown: M20. Loose insert: scrap paper page marker, with contemporary ink ms.: 175/1. Pencilms. on pl.17, v.2 (showing M. Anglesey). Colour folded plate in poor condition. Provenance: endpaper inscribed "Charlotte Anglesey the gift of Anglesey" [i.e. Charlotte Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, née Cadogan (1781-1853) (m.1. Henry Wellesley, Baron Cowley of Wesley, 1803; m.2. Henry Paget, Marquess of Anglesey, 1812)] from Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854)]. Binding: nineteenth-centy straight grained red morocco; gilt tooled borderand blind tooled centre panel; six false bands; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered direct: Waterloo. Gilt tooled turn-ins; all edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Booth, John (1768-1840), editor Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788 - 1859), author Jane Watts (1793 - Langton Grange 1826), illustrator Jones, George, 1786-1869