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Obsequies of His Grace the Late Illustrious Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, K.G. K.C.B. &c. &c.
Obsequies of His Grace the Late Illustrious Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, K.G. K.C.B. &c. &c. 18th November 1852.
Drawn & On Stone by A Maclure.
MacLure, MacDonald & MacGregor, Lithographers to the Queen, London, Manchester & Glasgow. [n.d., 1852.]
Large folio, original lithographed illustrated wrappers, original silk ties; four tinted lithographs on chine collé, complete?. Some foxing. Covers bit dusty.
Illustrations commemorating the funeral of the Duke of Wellington: an oval portrait; the lying-in-state at Chelsea Hospital; the arrival of the carriage at St Paul's Cathedral and the service in the cathedral. In 1851 MacLure, MacDonald & Co imported a Sigl machine from Germany which was capable of printing 600 sheets an hour and the firm is believed to be the first in the UK to use steam power for lithographic printing. They invented their own steam-driven press in 1853. The firm closed in 1992.
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