Shelfmark
Ie3.2
Author
Title
The last of the brave; or Resting places of our fallen heroes in the Crimea and at Scutari / By Captains the hon. John Colborne, 60th Royal Rifles, late 77th Regiment; and Frederic Brine, Royal Engineers.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Ackermann and Co., 106, Strand, 1857.
Physical description
vi, 66 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Note
14 tinted lithographic plates signed by "E. Walker, lith."; 1 unsigned outline lithograph. All plates have additional signature "Day & Son lith[ographe]rs to the Queen".
Note
Publisher's grey linen case binding; front board stamped in gilt with design of two soldiers contemplating a monument with names of battles and cover title, within border of arabesques.
Provenance
Presentation inscription from (?) George J. Bondier, "the cousin, friend, & chaplain of one "of the fallen" to his uncle, Charles Rooke, November 1857. The name "Rooke, W., [Captain], 47th Regiment" is marked in pencil in the appendix (p. 62).
Subject
Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of.
Subject
Soldiers' monuments Ukraine Crimea.
Subject
Crimean War, 1853-1856 Cemeteries, British.
Subject
Soldiers' monuments Turkey Istanbul.
Subject
Üsküdar (Istanbul, Turkey)
Subject
Crimea (Ukraine)
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Walker, Edmund, 1813 or 1814 - 1882 lithographer.
Added entry--name
Ackermann and Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Day & Son lithographer.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B43774