SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[MILITARY]
[The Volunteers of 1860].

A lovely small work of vivid watercolours of different military volunteer regiments in 1860.

Published
n.p. & n.d.
Plates
19
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
n.p. & n.d.
Ref
488

8vo. (21 x 16.5 cm). 3/4 tan calf, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered red and black labels. Tartan endpapers. All edges gilt. 19 Manuscript colour illustrations of soldiers. 4 plates by a different hand. Trivial scuffing to extremities two plates slightly loose. Coloured plates in order: 1. Honourable Artillery. 2. 1st Middlesex (Victorias). 3. 19th Middlesex (Tom Brown's lambs). 4. The 6 Post Guards. 5. Piper Major Highlanders. 6. 23 Middlesex (Devil's own). 7. London Irish. 8. 1st Middlesex Engineers. 9. London Scottish. 10. Bayonet Exercise (2 plates). High Guard-Point. 11. Bayonet Exercise. Guard. 12. 1st Surrey Artillery. 13. 2nd South Middlesex. 14. 1st Surrey. 15. The City of London. 16. The Piper. 17. 9th West Middlesex. 18. 12th Middlesex (St Georges). 19. Queens Westminster.