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Item #40018 Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain. Rev. William BRADFORD.
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Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain
Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain

Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809 [bound with:] Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal. Intended as a Supplement to Rev. Mr. Bradford's Sketches of Country, Costume, and Character, in Portugal and Spain

London: Printed for John Booth by William Savage, 1810. Large folio. (19 x 13 1/4 inches). 38 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece ("The Monument...To the Memory of Sir John Moore...") and 40 hand-colored aquatint plates, by J. Clark after drawings by Bradford. Supplement: 8 pp., 13 additional hand-coloured aquatint plates after Bradford [Plates watermarked 1808-9].

Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt, marbled paper-covered boards.

The very rare first edition large-paper issue of a noted English coloured-plate book. This copy uncut, with the hard-to-find frontispiece and supplement, comprising 53 hand-coloured acquaint plates.

The present work, one of the first to provide an eyewitness account of the Napoleonic Wars, includes scenic views of Portugal and Spain. William Bradford was Chaplain to the British Army during the Peninsular War, England's foray into Iberia on the side of Spain and Portugal. His drawings chart the course of the army through Portugal and Northern Spain, and he was among those chaplains who retreated to Corunna with Sir John Moore's army in January of 1809. Based upon Bradford's first-hand experiences, the work presents a series of topographical views interspersed with plates illustrating the costume of the local people that Bradford encountered, accompanied by text which follows the progress of the British forces from August 1808 to January 1809. Characterised by a grand and gentle beauty, the acquaints make only subtle reference to the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars. As such, they stand in strong contrast to the nightmarish contemporaneous prints produced by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Bradford's Sketches was first published in 1809-10 in 24 separate parts, and then again in 1810 in book form. The uncoloured frontispiece of the monument to Sir John Moore at Corunna, present here, seems not to be present in copies bound from parts (see Abbey). The work was published on regular paper, as here, at £11. The supplement, included in the present copy, consists of 13 additional plates illustrating Spanish, Portuguese, and French military uniforms.

Abbey Travel 135 2B; Tooley 107; Colas 421; Palau 34386; Prideaux p. 328.

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Price: $3,000.00

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