A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was Engaged; from the Year 1642 to his Death 1658: With a Continuation of other Transactions to the Restoration. Small folio. Five engraved plates as called for and a further eighteen illustrations drawn from a variety of sources, earlier and later. Some light browning, otherwise very good in contemporary half calf on marbled boards, a little worn, rebacked with original repaired spine laid down. 6, 196pp. Westminster [London], 1810.
One of 250 large paper copies. Uncommon. Often attributed to its publisher, Machell Stace, this work was intended as the basis for extra-illustration. Caulfield’s business as a print-seller was largely based on the craze for portrait engravings begun by James Granger’s Biographical History…. This copy with the bookplate of military historian Cyril Field to the front pastedown and that of ?Adrian Liddell Hart to the front free endpaper.
