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Publication: Henry Graves, London, 1855.
£2,950
Attractive and quite rare lithograph work showing scarce scenes of the Crimean War. First edition, in its first binding.
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A scarce work on the Crimean War, absent from both Abbey and Blackmer (two major collections where Harginge’s book would have been expected to be found).
The folio plates mostly show scenes of the war around Sebastopol, originally drawn by Hardinge and not copied from other similar works. Some plates are more unusual, such as the ‘Vespers at the Monastery of St. George’.
The 2nd Viscount of Lahore, Hardinge (1822-94) had already published an important plate book in 1847, on India, where he was serving as private secretary to his father, Sir Henry Hardinge, first Viscount of Lahore, who was Governor-General of India at the time.
A very good copy of the first edition, kept in what is probably the publisher’s binding.
Provenance
Richard Luckett (booklabel to upper pastedown).
Bibliography
Bobins 145; not in Abbey or Blackmer.
Item number
2193
Large folio (54.5 x 37 cm). Tinted lithographic title with vignette, list of plates, and 19 plates with tissues guards, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks after Hardinge.
Binding
Contemporary (publisher’s?) red morocco-backed cloth, titled in gilt to upper cover, flat spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers
Condition
Binding spotted and rubbed, more so at extremities, a bit bumped; light foxing or soiling internally, the odd minor marginal closed tear, a few tissue guard creased and a bit torn at edges, but overall in very good condition internally.
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