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Shelfmark

Gk.3.03 - Gk.3.04

Author

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

Subject

Military art and science.

Subject

Armor.

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Egerton, Thomas, fl. 1784 - 1830 (Bookseller), publisher.

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Goodnight, N.C. engraver.

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Derby Central Library former owner.

Added entry--place

England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B51325
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