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Item #42511 The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War. Henry Alexander OGDEN, - Henry Loomis NELSON.
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The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War
The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War

The Army of the United States. Illustrated by forty-four fac-simile plates from water color drawings by H.A. Ogden. Text by Henry Loomis Nelson. Prepared and executed by the Quartermaster General of the United States, under the Authority of the Secretary of War

New York: B.M. Whitlock, publishers; G.H. Buek & Co., lithographers, [1888-1900]. Square folio. (16 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches). Title with vignette illustration. 47 chromolithographic plates (44 plates by Buek after Ogden; 3 supplemental plates [numbered XLV-XLVII] loosely inserted within the vol.II portfolio, as issued).

Contemporary dark blue half morocco over green cloth-covered boards, the title blocked in gilt on the upper cover, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (scuffed)

[with:] Henry Alexander OGDEN (illustrator). Uniform of the Army of the United States (Illustrated) from 1898 to 1907 Volume II. Authorized by the Secretary of War and prepared and published by the Quartermaster General. American Lithographic Company [and others], lithographers, [copyright date to plates 1908]. Square folio (18 x 15 inches). Title. 23 chromolithographic plates after Ogden. Unbound as issued within original blue half morocco portfolio, cloth ties (neat repairs to spine). Edition de luxe limited to 1500 copies, this copy numbered 95. This copy accompanied by the suite of plates forming volume II. A rare complete set of a work published over a twenty-year period. H. A. Ogden, who was born in Philadelphia but studied and worked in New York came to specialise in historically accurate images of colonial life and the U.S. military. The original illustrations to the present work were executed as a commission from the U.S. Army Quartermaster General's Department. In 1911 Ogden became a member of the Society of Illustrators, and his work is to be found in collections of the Fraunces Tavern Museum and the New York Historical Society. The plates show the uniforms of American Army from the Revolution to 1907: each plate shows the subjects in context with naturalistic settings, weapons, horses, and other military paraphernalia. Some include famous military figures (General Grant and Lafayette, for example) and the result is truly "the outstanding American Work on the subject." The complete suite of 70 plates is particularly rare as a result of the twenty-year gap between the publication of the first and last plates.

Bennett p.85; Howes O-36.

Item #42511

Price: $2,250.00