The battles of the British Army, in Portugal, Spain and France, from the year 1808 to 1814. : Under the command of England's great captain Arthur Duke of Wellington. / Edited, published and sold by Edw'd Orme ...
Orme, Edward
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246018
Summary
Bibliographic description
[13] leaves, [12] leaves of plates ; 12mo. (11 cm). Bookdealer's pencil note on second front free endpaper verso: "The only copy I have seen F.A.C.B. 12/2/07". Ephemera: loosely inserted in box: (1) manuscript note on this item; (2) typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] inside box. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red morocco, blind rolled to form a border; sewn onto recessed cords; gilt fillets and blind stamped flowers on spine. In protective quarter red morocco, red cloth-covered box; gilt fillets and gilt tooled title on spine of box: 'Peninsular War'; gilt-stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine of box; blue silk lining. Binder's gilt stamp inside box: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. 7, Hanover Street W.1.'.
Makers and roles
Orme, Edward, editor