[Crimean War] William Simpson (1823-1899)
London, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi, 1855. 69 (out of 80) loose coloured lithographs, incl. 17 handcoloured in passe-partouts. With the title page and index page of vol. 1.
William Simpson recorded the battles of the Crimean War and made his watercolour drawings on the battlefield. 80 of these drawings were lithographed and published in The Seat of War in the East (1855-1856), which he dedicated to Queen Victoria.
Some dam. to margins, occ. affecting the plates, some plates with sl. waterstaining in margin, 1 plate in passepartout with restored tear. (total 69)