Buy this book on-line William Bradford : Sketches of the Country, Character and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the campaign, and on the route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809John Booth, London, 1824
Contemporary full morocco rebacked expertly saving the original spine, upper and lower board with gilt diamond within an embossed and gilt floral border, spine with 6 densely gilt compartments of raised bands gilt lettering on two and four. All edges gilt, orange paste down and free end papers ex-libris on paste down endpaper. , The fore-edge of the text opposite the plate “Peasants of Torres Vedras” is reinforced, otherwise a very good to fine example. Plates are clean and crisp. Bound in decorative period binding. , folio, P. frontis, title, blank, plate listing, blank (2), plates and description (unpaginated), 55 hand-coloured aquatints by J. Clark after Bradford and H. Michel. Some of the plates are watermarked 1824 Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of William Bradford : Sketches of the Country, Character and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the campaign, and on the route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, livres anciens, atlases, livres rares and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |