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Liddell Colonel R.S.

The Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), Historical and Social. With Illustrations by Oscar Norie. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Longmans Green & Co., 1891

218,50 €

Island Books

(Devon, Royaume-Uni)

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Détails

Année
1891
Auteur
Liddell Colonel R.S.
Éditeurs
Longmans Green & Co.
Thème
military, british army, cavalry, tenth hussars, napoleon, napoleonic wars, peninsular campaign, waterloo, unit history, unit histories, r.s. liddell, military, unit histories, the, memoirs, the, tenth, royal, hussars, (prince, wales's, own), hist
Langues
Anglais

Description

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 12 fine chromolithographed pates showing uniforms (all original tissue guards present), 2 portraits in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and several monochrome illustrations in the text; original black diced cloth, upper board with elaborate gilt frame border enclosing crest and motto blocked in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, corners bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. With an armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Decent copy of one of the best illustrated and most lavishly bound cavalry histories of the period; Norie's plates are particularly fine. Includes detailed account of the regiment's service in the Peninsular and at Waterloo. A remainder issue was published without plates. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p 68; White, p.20.