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

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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

John 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

Bradford was Chaplain of Brigade to the Expedition and his “Sketches of Portugal and Spain”, which was first published in some 24 parts between 1809 and 1810, enjoyed great popularity in the immediate aftermath of the Peninsula War, with further issues following in 1812, 1813, and 1823., Hiler pg. 110; Abbey Travel 135; Tooley 109

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