SIMPSON. THE SEAT OF WAR IN THE EAST, 1855-1856, 2 VOL., COLOURED PLATES

FIRST EDITION, second issue (with the key plates to volume 1 bound in), 2 volumes, folio (550 x 367mm.), 2 hand-coloured lithographed titles, volume 1 with lithographed dedication (and plate list on the reverse), volume 2 with letterpress plate list, 79 hand-coloured lithographed plates heightened with gum Arabic, 36 mounted outline key plates (20+16), volume 2 with letterpress text, 16 page Colnaghi General Catalogue dated October 1855 bound in, contemporary maroon half morocco, spines in compartments with raised bands gilt, gilt edges, some light to heavy spotting (mostly to text and margins of plates), extremities slightly rubbed

Frederick Perkins (1780-1860), Chipstead Place, Kent, bookplate

Abbey, Travel 237; cf. Atabey 146 (reduced version); not in Tooley or Blackmer

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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A DELUXE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES OF THE CRIMEAN WAR. Simpson's work is impressive "not only artistically and technically, but also as pictorial reporting. Simpson must in this way rank as an early war correspondent" (Abbey).