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4 volumes. First Edition. 27 folding aquatints of which 24 are handcoloured including folding handcoloured frontispieces, engraved title-pages and profusely illustrated with fine handcoloured engravings throughout, many folding coloured plates and battle plans, all by Engraved by G. Cruikshank from the original designs of Vernet, Denon, Prudhon, Gerard, Cruikshank, Swebach, Beyer &c, and executed at Paris by I. Duplesis Berteaux and others. Plates dated 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827 and 1828 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spines gilt ruled between raised bands, lettered and numbered in gilt. xl, 477 pp, 5 handcoloured folding plates; xii, 556 pp, 6 handcoloured folding plates; xiv, 600 pp, 5 handcoloured folding plates; viii, 542,1 folding plates of which 8 are handcoloured, pp. A very pleasing set in antique binding.