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XII pp + 188 pages with 13 hand coloured soft-ground aquatints and one vignette etching and one plain copper-plate, all on Whatman cartridge paper as are the pages, plates dated to 1827. LARGE paper copy. 10.5 x 7.25 inches (26.5 x 18 cm). The original full blood red morocco is worn at extremes, spine edges, top and base of spine, bottom edge and ornate gilt borders the gilt is dull, several old surface score marks to the leather also, contents all very good and firm, plates clear, fresh and no marks. minor odd light handling spots, wide margins. AEG (all edges gilt). Residue of an ex-libris bookplate inside front board (NOT ex-Library, ex-libris!). Royal Octavo. *NOTES: Captain Dorset Fellowes (named after being born on HMS Dorsetshire) 1769-1852 , as he appears in court-related press reports, was clearly an able and experienced seaman, surviving one serious sinking off Newfoundland, and one of a diversely talented family of sailors. This account of the near 1000 miles travelled through the northern French country made just after Waterloo describing the fortunes of families and scenery in the region of Bocage and Normandy in and around the places of the Vendean War just before Waterloo, the paragraphs and passages on the graves of Marshall Ney and Labédoyére and their desecration, the countryside is also well described in a leisurely manner. SEE: Tooley, 212; Abbey, Travel, 91, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9460
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