Fine Books & Manuscripts

[KING’S BINDER – JOHN MACKENZIE] MAXWELL, William Hamilton (1792–1850). Life of Field–Marshal His Grace The Duke of Wellington. London: A. H. Baily & Co., 1839–40. 3 volumes, 8vo. Engraved additional titled with vignette, steel–engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 20 steel–engraved plates and 22 maps and plans (plus one extra), numerous in–textvignettes (plates foxed at margins). Contemporary full Spanish calf with central Armorial device in gilt within a double gilt fillet border, raised bands with gilt stippling, olive spine label gilt lettered, compartments ornately gilt, head and tail compartments with a cubit arm in armour shown with a serpent wound around it holding a spear in fess, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, STAMP SIGNED BY JOHN MACKENZIE (joints a trifle bit rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this splendid early work on Wellington bound by the English royal bookbinder to both King George IV and King William IV. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.