[.ca] Austerlitz: The Empire at Its Zenith (ISBN 2913903711)

Printing Messed up on Color plates.:
One of the benefits of this series is the beautiful color uniform plates. Unfornately in this book they are really messed up. This book should have never reached the marketplace is this condition!!!

Dropped black plate?:
I have all the books in this wonderful series, but this installment seems to have printing problems with ten pages of uniform illustrations (all among the Austrian forces). The black plate didn't print, so that the uniforms have large areas of a pale bluish gray where the black should have been. Since the plates are a large reason why I collect these books, this is actually a big deal. I'll give it 3 stars just for being available, but I found the problems to be a major disappointment.

Dropped black from color plates:
I have all the books in this series (four to date) plus a few others by H & C. I have to agree with Christopher. This installment seems to have some printing problems. But in my book, its only two pages (pages 14 and 15) that the black plate didn't print, giving the uniform plates on those pages large areas of a pale bluish gray where the black should have been. This might not seem that major since only two pages are affected, but since the plates are one of the stronger reasons why I collect the books, this is actually a big deal to me. For the price we pay, and the the fact that these books are of very nice quality, you would think that they would proof the printed material looking for mistakes before and during printing. My reason for the 3star rating for this book. The other books get 5stars for color plates.