Accession number
PML 146715
Creator
Simpson, William, 1823-1899.
Published
London : Paul & Dominic Colnaghi, publishers to Her Majesty ; Paris : Goupil & Cie., 1855-1856.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Each folio series originally issued in 10 parts for a total of 20 parts.
Plates printed by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen, London, with descriptive notes.
Other editions issued with historical text by George Brackenbury.
Set of 81 tinted lithographs printed in three colors with added hand coloring, executed by J. Needham, W. Walton, R. Carrick, E. Walker, E. Morin, C. Haghe, T. Picken, R.M. Bryson, and others, after drawings by Simpson done on location.
36 of the plates are accompanied by "key" leaves reproducing the image in reduced outline, with the names of the figures and places represented given below.
Series two t.p. adds to imprint: Leipzig : Otto Weigel.
Unpaginated.
Text version by G. Brackenbury also published under title: The campaign in the Crimea.
Lithographic t.p.s with vignettes included in lists of plates.
Text consists of lists of plates; publisher's dedication (inscript) on recto of that for 1st series. The folio edition, as issued, without the historical text by George Brackenbury.
Library's copy lacks the lithographic dedication leaf, plates 18, 46, 50, and 51; and keys for plate 20 and the whole of the 2nd series.
Plates printed by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen, London, with descriptive notes.
Other editions issued with historical text by George Brackenbury.
Set of 81 tinted lithographs printed in three colors with added hand coloring, executed by J. Needham, W. Walton, R. Carrick, E. Walker, E. Morin, C. Haghe, T. Picken, R.M. Bryson, and others, after drawings by Simpson done on location.
36 of the plates are accompanied by "key" leaves reproducing the image in reduced outline, with the names of the figures and places represented given below.
Series two t.p. adds to imprint: Leipzig : Otto Weigel.
Unpaginated.
Text version by G. Brackenbury also published under title: The campaign in the Crimea.
Lithographic t.p.s with vignettes included in lists of plates.
Text consists of lists of plates; publisher's dedication (inscript) on recto of that for 1st series. The folio edition, as issued, without the historical text by George Brackenbury.
Library's copy lacks the lithographic dedication leaf, plates 18, 46, 50, and 51; and keys for plate 20 and the whole of the 2nd series.
Description
2 v. in 1 (40, 41 leaves of plates) : chiefly hand col. ill. (lithograph) ; 58 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's brown cloth portfolio.
Classification
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