NAPOLEONIC UNIFORMS Volume 2

ELTING. J.R

ISBN 10: 0028971175 / ISBN 13: 9780028971179

Published by MacMILLAN, 1993

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1993. HARDBACK. VOLUME 2 ONLY. THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE WORK, WITH KNOTEL'S WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. UNPAGINATED. THE BOOK ITSELF IS GOOD TO VERY GOOD. THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS ARE VERY GOOD. TOP EDGE OF BLOCK IS A BIT DUST SPOTTED. TINY LINE OF INK FROM BALL POINT PEN ON EDGE OF BLOCK- SEE PHOTOS. THE OATMEAL CLOTH BOARDS HAVE SOME SPOTS OF FOXING. TINY SCUFFS ON CORNERS OF THE HARD COVERS. THE DUSTWRAPPER IS FAIR TO GOOD. CREASING AT TOP OF SPINE AND LIGHT WEAR TO TOP EDGE. LIGHT CREASING AT BOTTOM OF SPINE AND REAR EDGE. A FEW DUST SPOTS ON TOP EDGE. A COUPLE OF SURFACE INDENTATIONS ON FRONT COVER AND A FEW LIGHT MARKS. SLIGHT ROUGHENING OF FRONT EDGE OF D/W. THERE IS A SMALL SLIT IN THE BOTTOM EDGE OF THE FRONT COVER UNDER THE LETTER "E" OF ELTING- APRROX ONE CM. REPAIRED WITH BOOKSELLER'S CLEAR TAPE. BUT STILL VISIBLE. ALSO A SMALL SLIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE REAR COVER- APPROX ONE CM. REPAIRED ON THE INSIDE OF THE COVER.A HEAVY BOOK- WELL OVER 2KG UNWRAPPED. WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE OVERSEAS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NAPOLEONIC UNIFORMS Volume 2
• Publisher: MacMILLAN
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0028971175
• ISBN 13: 9780028971179
• Binding: Hard Back
• Illustrator: KNOTEL
• Condition: GOOD TO VERY GOOD. .
• Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR TO GOOD.
• Seller catalogs:
  • UNIFORMS
  • NAPOLEONIC

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Synopsis

The magnificent color illustrations of the Elting books make extensive use of surviving eyewitness sketches and accounts, and show how widely most armies of the time made use of captured or improvised equipment.

The glories of the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and British armies, as well as the smaller German states are all gathered together here in a single work for the first time.

From Library Journal

This unique work illustrates French military costumes from the 1780s to 1830: infantry, cavalry, engineers, musicians, cadets, aviators (in a balloon corps!), fencing masters, Swiss Guards (and other foreign units under French command), and many other categories. All ranks are shown, as are the distinctive uniforms of many different regiments. Elting, a military historian, supplies informative comments on each plate. The nearly 2000 watercolors were painted for him by Knotel (d. 1963), a German authority on military costume whose father Richard (d. 1914) was in his time the world's leading expert in the field. The younger Knotel's Handbuch der Uniformkunde (Hamburg: Schulz, 1937; 7th ed.) is a classic but does not compare in beauty with the present work. Though Napoleonic Uniforms has an inadequate glossary and lacks page numbers, index, and an over-all table of contents, it is indispensable to anyone seriously interested in the subject.
- Margarete Gross, Chicago P.L.
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