(Uniform and Dress)

Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Army of the United States, June, 1851.  From the original Text and Drawings in the War Department.  Philadelphia: William H. Horstmann, 1851



Folio (14  3/4  x 11  1/4  in.; 375 x 286 mm).  25 lithographed plates after G. C. Humphries by P. S. Duval, 5 of them chromolithographs, 6 plates partially handcolored; some soiling, generally in margins.  Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth; spine renewed in gray buckram, covers worn and rubbed.  



 

Robert W. Chambers (signature on front free endpaper dated 1909) 

Colas 2520

This copy with a manuscript note in a contemporary hand affixed to the lower pastedown concering colors for shoulder straps for various branches of the service.  Below this, are three swatches of wool fabric in various shades of blue. 

Scarce.  No copies of this work have appeared at auction since 1981.