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William Simpson : The Seat of War in the East

Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., London, 1855-6.

Contemporary gilt ½ morocco with original cloth boards and gilt title, spine with 6 densely gilt compartments of raised bands and gilt floral designs, gilt morocco title on two. Edges gilt, endpapers marbled. , Corners bumped, occasional light browning; however, text and plates are generally in very good condition, bound in original decorative gilt half morocco. A desirable copy., Folio. , P. 2 ff., title leaf, dedication leaf, 39 plates; title leaf, 40 plates, 12 descriptive text leaves, 2 ff., Complete with 81 full page tinted lithographs (incl. two lithographed titles), all with accompanying tissue guards, 37 of which have descriptive letterpress on them., Volume : 2 volumes in 1.

This copy contains both series.
“Both series were published in ten parts, each part containing four plates (except the last part of the second series, which contained five plates, the lithographed title being given in this part.) … As a publisher’s announcement in December 1854 shows, Simpson had been ‘commissioned to proceed to Sebastopol’ immediately, by Colnaghi’s. This was the beginning of the enterprise which earned him the name ‘Crimean Simpson’. These plates are indeed an impressive piece of work, not only artistically and technically, but also as pictorial reporting. Simpson must in this way rank as an early war correspondent.” (Abbey Travel 237).
, Abbey Travel 237

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William Simpson : The Seat of War in the East

Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., London, 1855

Contemporary gilt ½ morocco with original cloth boards and gilt title, spine with 6 densely gilt compartments of raised bands and gilt floral designs, gilt title on morocco on two. Edges gilt, endpapers marbled., This handsome plate book with minor staining of cloth boards, otherwise in excellent condition, text and plates are clean and crisp, and the colours are fresh., Folio, P. 81 plates, list of plates (24)., Complete with 81 full page hand-coloured lithographs (incl. two lithographed titles)., Volume : 2 volumes in 1.

This copy contains both series.
“Both series were published in ten parts, each part containing four plates (except the last part of the second series, which contained five plates, the lithographed title being given in this part.) … As a publisher’s announcement in December 1854 shows, Simpson had been ‘commissioned to proceed to Sebastopol’ immediately, by Colnaghi’s. This was the beginning of the enterprise which earned him the name ‘Crimean Simpson’. These plates are indeed an impressive piece of work, not only artistically and technically, but also as pictorial reporting. Simpson must in this way rank as an early war correspondent.” (Abbey Travel 237).
, Abbey Travel 237

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