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ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827)

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£ 2 000
Auction dateClassic
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 79 | ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827)
ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827)

Loyal Volunteers of London and Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in Their Respective Uniforms [engraved title:] –This Illuminated School of Mars or Review of the Loyal Volunteer Corps of London [letterpress title]. London: R. Ackermann (1798-1799).

A very fresh copy of the first edition, the plates finely hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. 'Perhaps one of the most original and even romantic sets of English military plates' (Bobins). The volunteer corps came about as a response to the imminent threat of invasion by French revolutionary forces, and fear of the terror unleashed in Paris. In his introduction, Ackermann notes that ‘The high fermented state of Politics at home, in conjunction with the crooked policy of our enemies abroad, was truly alarming. At this moment, the enemy had advanced their best regulated legions to the shores of the British Channel; and for the determined purpose of spreading through our land such miseries as have already rendered wretched their own'. Rowlandson describes the drill position of each soldier in engraved text below each plate. A remarkable set of this beautiful and historically important work. Abbey Life 379; Bobins II, 385; Tooley 416.



Large quarto (325 x 253mm). Pp. viii, 4 including subscribers lists, 87 aquatint plates, including the title, coloured by a contemporary hand, some plates watermarked J. Whatman 1794, most highlighted in gold, numbered 1-79 for the infantry with 77,78 and 79 engraved on a single plate, and 1-9 for the cavalry, with plate 3 of cavalry mounted as frontispiece, all with printed descriptions, extra-illustrated with an unsigned plate of three infantrymen at end, plates with later tissue guards (some light spotting, very rare marginal mark). Early 20th-century red crushed morocco by Bayntun of Bath, covers with elaborate gilt-scrolled and leafy border, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, wide turn-ins with corner-pieces of gilt pointillé and small gilt tools (rebacked with original spine laid down). Provenance: W. J. Mac Dougald (bookplate).





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