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Loyal Volunteers of London & environs, infantry & cavalry in their respective uniforms : representing the whole of the manual, platoon & funeral exercise, in 87 plates

Title
Loyal Volunteers of London & environs, infantry & cavalry in their respective uniforms : representing the whole of the manual, platoon & funeral exercise, in 87 plates / designed & etch'd by T. Rowlandson, and dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester.
Published
[London : R. Ackermann, Strand, 1799]
Physical Description
[2], viii, [92] p., 77, [8], [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center has three copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Two additional plates not included. Bound in gold-tooled calf. Copy 2 bound in gold-tooled calf, rebacked. Additional plates not included. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward B. Baker, Bart. Copy 3 bound in contemporary boards. Has the two additional plates.
Notes
Preface is signed: R. Ackermann ... August 12, 1799.
Title page is engraved.
Descriptive text accompanies each plate.
"Two additional plates exist, 'Expedition of Military Fly' and 'Sadler's Flying Artillery': the book [Abbey copy] was bound in volume form before they were issued."--Cf. Abbey.
"List of subscribers": p. [1-3].
Errata: p. [91].
Variant and related titles
Loyal Volunteers of London and environs, infantry and cavalry in their respective uniforms
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T77372
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 2586
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 416
Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany). Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), Qh8
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 379
Genre/Form
Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1799.
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