An historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher
Subtitle: comprising the battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo : with a detailed narrative of the political events connected with those memorable conflicts, down to the surrender of Paris, and the departure of Bonaparte for St. Helena
By: drawn up from the first authorities by William Mudford ; illustrated by numerous public and private official documents, and other papers, hitherto unpublished, communicated by officers of the highest distinction ; embellished with a series of plates descriptive of the country between Brussels and Charleroi ... by James Rouse ...
Publisher: Printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street, Hanover square
Published: 1816
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Campaigns; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815
Other titles: Historical account of the battle of Waterloo; Battle of Waterloo
Notes: The title page and preliminary matter (xviii, [2] p.) are included in pt. 4.

Added engr. t.-p. & covers have title: An historical account of the battle of Waterloo.

Imprint on covers: London, Printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street, Egerton, Whitehall, Orme, Bond Street, Ackerman, Strand, Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh & John Cumming, Dublin. 1816.

Each plate bears Colburn's imprint dated 1816 except the map, dated June 23, 1817. The engraved title page, 3 other plates and the cover design are by George Cruikshank; the figures in the other plates (except plate ii, or B) are also by him; 4 plates are after C.C. Hamilton. Plates B, D & L are mounted; in some copies D.D is also mounted (cf. Tooley).

Cohn, Reid, and Douglas call for 30 plates including the engraved title page presumably listed (p. xviii) as "Plate xxvii. Frontispiece"; Tooley lists 31 plates, describing plate xxvii as containing "Waterloo, in memory of the heroic deeds of Shaw of 1st Life guards" (without imprint) and usually not present.

Most plates are hand-colored aquatints.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 580

Reid, G.W. Descriptive cat. George Cruikshank, 516-544, 4679

Douglas, R.J.H. Works George Cruikshank, 18

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1979 ed.), 336