Shelfmark
Id5.3.11
Author
Title
The days of battle; or, Quatre Bras and Waterloo, by an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June, 1815. Author of "Rome in the nineteenth century".
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden., MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical description
iv, 172 p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Note
Imprint from colophon: "C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand".
Provenance
Ms. note glued to front pastedown: "Institution Française, 1 Hill Street, Classe élémentaire A, Mr Alex[ande]r A. Barrou, 2e Prix Edinbourg, 28 Juille 1855, Fs Espinasse". Booklabel of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on rear pastedown.
Binding
19th-century light brown polished ?calfskin over paste/millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets and roll to form a border, blind fillets also to form an inner border with blind tools at the corners. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools and titling over red label. Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, two at the lower end.
Subject
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815.
Subject
Quatre-Bras, Battle of, Quatre-Bras, Belgium, 1815.
Added entry--name
Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796 - 1884 publisher.
Added entry--name
Whiting, Charles, active 1832 - 1879 printer.
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52731