GEORGE ABBOTT Views of the Forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire. London: Graf, Engelmann, Coindet & Co. for J.M.Richardson, 1827. Oblong 2° (332 x 488mm). 1p. subscriber's list noting 84 copies, 40 for the East India Company. Lithographic title and dedication, 11 plates on india paper mounted, all by Graf, Engelmann [etc] after Abbott, extra-illustrated with a single letterpress leaf mounted on front free endpaper A Short Account of the Capture of the Forts... Description of the plates... . (Title, dedication and margins of mounts spotted.) Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, title label on upper cover (lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance : St.Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y. (ink stamp on free endpaper dated 1894, noting bequest by the Rev. Patrick Brady, bookplate of Archbishop Corrigan Memorial Library).
GEORGE ABBOTT Views of the Forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire. London: Graf, Engelmann, Coindet & Co. for J.M.Richardson, 1827. Oblong 2° (332 x 488mm). 1p. subscriber's list noting 84 copies, 40 for the East India Company. Lithographic title and dedication, 11 plates on india paper mounted, all by Graf, Engelmann [etc] after Abbott, extra-illustrated with a single letterpress leaf mounted on front free endpaper A Short Account of the Capture of the Forts... Description of the plates... . (Title, dedication and margins of mounts spotted.) Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, title label on upper cover (lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance : St.Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y. (ink stamp on free endpaper dated 1894, noting bequest by the Rev. Patrick Brady, bookplate of Archbishop Corrigan Memorial Library).
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