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 3241803
Summary
Bibliographic description
27, [21] p., 11 col. plates (some fold.) : ill. ; fol. Includes extra material at end: A concise history, &c. &c. Part II = p. [29]-60; Memoirs of leaders = p. [61]-75; Explanation of the annexed plate of facsimiles = p.76; [8] p. of text: Smolenkso, Hanau, Paris; thus pagination: 27, [21], p. [29]-76, [8] p., [22] leaves of plates. Historic shelfmark (in ink, on ticket on front pastedown): "38A". Pencil number "19" on verso of front pastedown. 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)]. Pencil inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "Fairhaven from Henry Anglesey Abbey Christmas 1942" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from his brother Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco, green cloth over boards; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'An illustrated record of the annals of Europe 1812 to 1815'; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; gilt top edge; green endpapers.
Makers and roles
Robert Bowyer (London 1758 - Byfleet 1834), editor