"MANY DETAILS AND ANECDOTES WHICH ARE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER WORK"

LOSSING, Benson J. The Pictorial FieldBook of the Revolution; Or, Illustrations, By Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War For Independenc. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851-52. Two volumes. Large octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $1850.

First edition of this massive two-volume "cyclopaedia of the American Revolution," richly illustrated with 1100 woodcut-engravings by Lossing and Barritt, in publisher's deluxe morocco binding.

This extensive American history, leading up and including the Revolutionary War, is embellished with numerous illustrations. Each volume contains tissue-guarded frontispieces: Volume I, Military Costume of the Revolution, is a color illuminated lithographed frontispiece finished by hand; Volume II frontispiece is a multi-image presentation of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Also with vignette and letter-press title pages. Featured throughout are facsimile autographs, illustrations of residences and headquarters, maps and plans of battles and sieges, with numerous views and portraiture. Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book "contains many details and anecdotes which are not to be found in any other work; indeed, the great variety and numerous items of information contained in these volumes, make the work a cyclopaedia of the American Revolution" (Sabin 42129).

Scattered foxing to text, more so in Volume II. Binding handsome. An attractive copy.