Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen [Royal Collection], in Two Volumes

220, 279 pp. Two volume set. 478 illustrations, 29 in colour. The military drawings and paintings in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen are seme 3,000 in number, and they comprise an impressive record of military dress of both British and foreign armies from the end of the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth. The plate volume contains a general introduction on the origins of the collection and the scope and arrangement of the catalogue... Some sixty artists are represented... The catalogue volume contains detailed notes on each of the 3,000 items in the collection.--jacket