Peninsular scenery illustrated in a series of views, taken from nature A.D. 1819 /
Douglas, George Lewis Augustus,1773-1847.
Lizars, W. H.(William Home),1788-1859,engraver.
Thomson, Charles,engraver.
Thomson, Alexander,of Banchory,former owner.NLS
London : Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co.,
MDCCCXXIV [1824] [actually 1836].
Amateur = author and artist George Lewis Augustus Douglas (or Douglass), a Sheriff of Kincardineshire.
Work consists of 23 engravings (and engraved title page) interleaved with 22 leaves of manuscript descriptions by the author of the scenes from Spain and Portugal depicted in the plates.  The work may have been intended to be issued with printed text by Hurst, Robinson in 1824 but it was not published, for reasons unknown. The engravings were printed before Hurst, Robinson & Co. went bankrupt in 1826 and the stock of sheets was probably sold off and acquired by the author. He then produced a few presentation copies c. 10 years later, which is confirmed by the interleaving of the sheets with manuscript descriptions on paper watermarked '1835'.
The majority of the engravings are by William Home Lizars of Edinburgh, except for three unsigned leaves, and a further three engraved by the Edinburgh engraver Charles Thomson.
With a MS copy of a note from the Duke of Wellington to the author, dated 2 August 1836,  inserted at the beginning.
On front free endpaper: presented by the author, to his much esteemed friend Alexander Thomson of Banchory Esq. A.D. 1836. With 19th-century armorial bookplate of Thomson on front pastedown.
Peninsular War, 1807-1814.