London: Blackie And Son, Date: 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Stanfield, R. A.., Robert’s, R. A., Harding, Proust, Leitch, Brockedon, Barnard, etc, etc,. Bookplate for: Coningsby C. Sibthorp. From the Italian by David Dundas Scott, Esq. frontispiece, two title pages, cviii, 159, [1]. Thick Folio, (13 1/2"" tall). Includes 60 engraved plates including frontispiece with tissue guards. Second title page dated 185. Marbled end papers. Book is solid, square, and tight, no cracked hinges or chips. Binding does have minor corner and edge wear with some scuffs. Foxing on the image and edge browning occurs mainly on the early and last plates. Most plates are clean except for some edge browning, not on the image. Text pages are very clean. Famous Person Connection: Colonel Coningsby Sibthorp (1783–1855); popularly known as Colonel Sibthorp, was a widely caricatured British Ultra-Tory politician in the early 19th century. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1826 to 1832 and from 1835 until 1855. Sibthorp was born into a Lincoln gentry family, He was commissioned into the Scots Greys in 1803, promoted Lieutenant in 1806, and later transferred to the 4th Dragoon Guards, in which he reached the rank of Captain. He did not serve abroad and continued in the service until 1822, when he succeeded to the family estates and also succeeded his brother as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia. During Sibthorp's three decades in Parliament, ...