Shelfmark
Bk.5.02
Author
Title
A narrative of the campaign in Russia, during the year 1812. By Sir Robert Ker Porter.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, [1813].
Physical description
xii, 282p : ill. (plans) ; 4to.
Note
The portrait in frontispiece, engraved by James Hopwood the Elder (1752?-1819), shows the Prince Kutuzov. The two plans represent the advance of the French army to Moscow and its retreat, showing north west Russia including St. Petersburg and Smolensk. They were engraved by Samuel John Neele (1758-1824), father of the English poet Henry Neele, and are heightened with watercolour blue, green and brown.
Provenance
Given to Eton by Nicholas Kessler in 2007.
Provenance
Stamp of Tsarskoe Selo Library.
Binding
19th-century red straight-grained morocco; covers decorated in gold and blind; spine in six compartments; gold lettered on spine; double raised bands; green silk endleaves.
Subject
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Campaigns Russia.
Subject
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Campaigns Germany.
Subject
Paris (France) History Capitulation, 1914.
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Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B18555