Shelfmark
Gk.3.03 - Gk.3.04
Author
Grose, Francis, 1731? - 1791
Title
Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army, from the Conquest to the present time. By Francis Grose Esq.ʳ F.A.S.
Edition
A new edition with material additions & improvements..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London. : Printed for T. Egerton, Whitehall; & G. Kearsley, Fleet Street., 1801..
Physical description
2 v. : ill., plans ; 27 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Vol. 1: [2], vi, [2], 412 p., [53] leaves of plates -- Vol. 2: [2], 236, *229-[*236], 237-372, [18] p., [28], 61 leaves of plates
Note
"Directions for placing the cuts" (vol. 1) p. [viii].
Note
"A treatise on antient armor and weapons" ... has a separate undated title page in vol. 2. (This title page counted as plate).
Note
Final leaf of v.1: "T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars".
Note
Many plates, including frontispiece of v.1, are signed "N.C. Goodnight".
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Stamp of Derby Town & County Library on title page of both volumes as well as plates (smaller stamps).
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound red morocco and marbled paper (combed pattern) over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind double fillets to separate leather from paper. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Military antiquities"; "Grose -- vol. [I/II.]"). Textblock trimmed and marbled (same pattern as covers). Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Great Britain Army
Subject
Military art and science.
Subject
Armor.
Added entry--name
Egerton, Thomas, fl. 1784 - 1830 (Bookseller), publisher.
Added entry--name
Kearsley, George (), active 1791 - 1813 publisher.
Added entry--name
Goodnight, N.C. engraver.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Davison, Thomas, 1765? - 1830 printer.
Added entry--name
Derby Central Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51325