NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (1799-1848)

NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (1799-1848) History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire; of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and of the Medals, Clasps, and Crosses conferred for Naval and Military Services, 4 volumes, morocco gilt, covers decorated with gilt foliate devices, with central royal crown above cypher of Queen Victoria surrounded by the Order of the Garter and associated motto, gilt spines, turn ins and edges, yellow endpapers, bookplate entwined C's beneath coronet and above date 1913, 36.3 x 28.7cm. pub. London for John Hunter, Maddox Street, by William Pickering, Chancery Lane, and John Rodwell, New Bond Street, 1842. These four sumptuous volumes contain hundreds of illustrations, many hand coloured and incorporating gold leaf, including twenty-one by George Baxter using his much admired colour-printing process. The plates are considered by P.H. Muir, the author of Victorian Illustrated Books (1989) to be truly magnificent and he states that 'it is doubtful whether the technical quality of these prints could be surpassed today".

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