Author: Hamilton, Anthony.
Title: Memoirs of Count Grammont. A New Edition, to Which are Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of Count Hamilton, and a Translation of the Epistle to Count Grammont. Illustrated with Sixty-Four Portraits, Engraved by Edward Scriven, &c., I-II. [TWO VOLUMES WITH 64 HAND-COLOURED PLATES].
Description: London, William Miller & James Carpenter, 1811. Hardcover. Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxxvii, 262, plus 29 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece; 356, plus 35 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in full blue levant morocco, spine with raised bands between richly decorated compartments, second and fourth compartments lettered direct, sides with elaborate gilt decoration with large floral corners, all within gilt fillet, large turn-in double ruled twice in gilt with corner fleuron, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing to extremities, one frontispiece is trifle cracked along gutter margin due to stress on heavy stock; minute repair at topmost gutter margin of three consecutive leaves. In fine condition. A splendid set. ~ New, enlarged edition, extremely rare in this breathtakingly beautiful hand-coloured variant. The wonderful plates, by Edward Scriven and others, are all superbly hand-coloured by contemporary hand and practically all are preserved fresh and bright with not a trace of offset. [Provenance:] From the library of Thomas Bell (1792-1880), an English zoologist, surgeon and writer, with his charming bookplate inside each cover. Later in the library of Jennie Tuttle Hobart (1849-1941), who was wife of a former Vice President Garret Hobart and a philanthropist and community activist in New Jersey, with his nicely decorated, armorial bookplate to first free endpaper of Volume I, above an old catalogue entry for the book. C-3 .

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