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READ & CO., publishers

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£ 2 000
Auction dateClassic
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 992535
Lot 117 | READ & CO., publishers
READ & CO., publishers

Great Wellington's Funeral Obsequies. To which is added a Memoir of his life, death and burial. London: Read & Co., 1852.

A splendid and regal souvenir of the Duke of Wellington’s state funeral on the 18th November 1852, forty seven years after he led British troops to victory on 18th June 1815, defeating Napoleon. In honour of his army efforts and his political career, during which he served as British Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 and again, for a short period, in 1834, his funeral was a grandiose affair. The interior views of St. Paul’s depict a sea of people gathered in the Cathedral to pay their respects, contrasting with the premier plate which offers an intimate depiction of the Duke’s last moments, his grey pallor and white hair emphasising his old age (he died at 82). The Duke of Wellington was such a well known figure that the Lord Mayor’s parade was cancelled to make room for the event, the only time ever this concession had been made. This publication was intended to be distributed as memorabilia, recording the grandeur of the event. It was readily consumed by the general public as the Duke of Wellington was a well-known celebrated figure of the day. Bobins IV, 1292.



Oblong folio (465 x 346mm). Lithographic frontispiece and 7 plates, coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gum arabic (spotting confined to margins and heavier to first plate, offsetting to frontispiece, plate 7 mis-bound to front). Original cloth-backed decorative boards, upper cover printed in red and black with large coat of arms of the Duke of Wellington on upper board surrounded by title within a wreathed border surmounted with angelic herald at head, publisher’s advertisements on lower cover within ornamental boarder, gilt edges (the spine sometime expertly repaired and with consolidation to the covers, some staining, soiling and abrasions, with associated textual lower from lower cover).





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