The Battle of Waterloo containing the series of accounts published by authority British and Foreign with curcumstantial details, previous, during, and after the battle from a variety of authentic and original sources, with relative official documents forming an historical record of the operations in the Campaign of the Netherlands, by a Near Observer, printed for J. Booth, Duke St Portland Place and T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1815, Fifth edition. 

Octavo. cxliv pp (144 pp); Explanation (1p); Part 2 (A complete series of official accounts) 104 pp; Part III (pagination continuous) Alphabetical list of the officers killed & wounded takes pagination to 142 from the previous section. Sympathetically re-backed in leather with spine label also in leather, in six compartments with gilt title, decorations in blind and gilt date '1815' to foot. The binding has a 'marbled' effect on the leather, the result of treatment with ferrous sulphate (mainly used to create tree calf, a popular style of leather binding in the early nineteenth century) but as here applied, leaving areas slightly raised as rough roundels. The darker background is where the acid was applied strongest to deliberately erode the leather giving a pleasing marbling effect. Marbled, green endpapers, the gutters reinforced with green, cloth tape. Coloured map of the field of Waterloo as the frontispiece and a further map showing the operations in Flanders (closed tear at top). Attractive, long, coloured folding panorama of the battlefield, all panels present. All in all, a very attractive copy of this title, which went into several editions after one of the most famous and decisive battles in British military history.