BRADFORD, William (c.1779-1857). Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, London, [1809], 4to, text in English and French, 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates, FINE contemporary plum morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.

BRADFORD, William (c.1779-1857).  Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809. London: Printed for John Booth, [1809]. 4to (358 x 265mm). Title and text in English and French, 55 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after William Bradford (some mainly marginal spotting and staining more pronounced to the text than to the plates which are generally clean, plates lightly offset onto the text, one plate neatly torn at the margin without loss). FINELY BOUND in contemporary straight-grained plum morocco gilt, red endpapers, gilt edges (lightly rubbed and scuffed, inner hinges reinforced). The plates present in this copy conform exactly to the printed list at the front. Some copies are described as being with, or, more often, without "the engraved plate of the Monument to Sir John Moore at Corunna" (or with some variant wording) and yet no plate with such a title is called for in the list. Bound at the end of the present volume is the supplement "Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal" (London, "printed by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, for John Booth", [n.d.]) with the plates for this supplement bound before its text at the end of the main body of the work. FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 135; Bobins II, 348; Brunet I, 443: "Ouvrage de luxe ..." (calling for 55 plates); Colas 421; not in Hardie; Hiler p.110; Palau 34386; Prideaux p.328; Tooley 107.