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1891Roy. 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.
1965Roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 24 fine photographic plates; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogues lists 158 notable items, with bibliography, and indexes by subject and artist.
19378vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 10 plates; original red buckram, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, firm copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.
1873Sm. 8vo., First [and Sole?] Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces (several neatly coloured by hand), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, ornate presentation inscription in red and black on front free endpaper verso; original decorative cloth blocked in black, coloured illustration mounted in arches frame on upper board, gilt back, green endpapers, a remarkably bright, well-preserved copy. Extremely scarce, and a rare survival in this condition.
1977Roy. 8vo., First English Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous pages of facsimile and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Commentaries to the original French edition (1969) by Jean-Pierre Babelon and Suzanne D'Huart.
19758vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and reproductions in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Articles include the Naval General Service 1793-1840; Retreat to Corunna; The Storming of Badajoz; Laswarree; Waterloo - then and now; together with items for sale. Loosely inserted in a copy of 'Jack of all Trades'. Naval Operations and Rewards 1793-1973, published in celebration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
1913Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with a frontispiece, 6 photographic plates, a full-page outline map coloured by hand, 5 engraved illustrations in the text and a large folding plan of the battle coloured by hand, page-edges browning slightly as usual; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with raised bands lettered in gilt, original printed wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cotton served in the 7th Hussars and later spent fourteen years as resident guide to the battlefield. This edition is one of the several issues printed by Tilbury for the Hotel de Musee. A lovely copy.
1971Sm. 4to., Seventh Impression, with illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at edges else a good, clean copy. Imrie/Risley Uniform Color Guides. Series No. 1. Booklet No. 1.
1898Roy. 4to., First Edition, with fine coloured portrait frontispiece and very numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text; brown half calf, green boards, gilt lettering panels from original green cloth mounted on upper board and backstrip, red sprinkled edges, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With a small number of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Published in the 'Navy and Army Illustrated' Library. An attractive copy of a profusely illustrated account. Sandler 1529.
19518vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and facsimile endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Wheeler served with the 51st in the Walcheren Expedition, the Peninsula and Waterloo. Sandler 3456.
18108vo., SOLE EDITION, some age-marking on half-title, neat repair to last leaf without loss of text, fore-edges browned, new endpapers; newly bound in black coarse-grain cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, clean copy. WITH THE SIGNATURE OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL [HENRY] CLINTON, DATED JUNE 1810, ON HALF-TITLE. The author was an officer of infantry. Sir Henry Clinton, the younger (1771-1829), was the second son of Sir Henry Clinton the elder and victor of Charleston. Beginning his career as ensign in 1787 he served in Holland from 1788-89 and was gazetted captain in 1791. He was appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of York in 1793 and promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1795. A distinguished career followed: as adjutant-general in India, 1802-5; military attaché with the Russian Army at Austerlitz, 1805; commandant at Syracuse, 1806-7; MP, 1808-18; adjutant-general in Sir John Moore's campaign, 1808-9; major-general, 1810, commanded sixth division in Peninsular, 1811-14; KB, 1813; lieutenant-general, 1814; at Waterloo, 1815. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SCARCE WORK OF CONSIDERABLE NAPOLEONIC INTEREST. Apparently not in BLPC; not recorded by Sandler.
19758vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. This anonymous journal was compiled as early as 1818 whilst the events were still relatively fresh in the writer's mind. It was first published in Edinburgh in 1819.
20118vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first memoir of this campaign from this famous regiment to appear in print, Crowe's journal of Wellington's final campaign was written up on a daily basis, and subsequently refined by the author in the years 1842-3. A minor milestone among contemporary account of the Peninsular War
19638vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 16, and 8 illustrations and 2 full-page battle-pans in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
18958vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, 2 plates in photogravure and 5 folding maps, neat signature on front free endpaper verso, half-title, frontispiece and title mildly spotted ; original red cloth, upper board framed in blind enclosing regimental crest of 16th Light Dragoons in gilt, gilt back, black endpapers, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. SIR CHARLES OMAN'S COPY WITH HIS NINETEENTH CENTURY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Tomkinson's Diary was first published in 1894 (a number of Press reviews is given on half-title verso). Widely regarded as a classic personal account of the campaign, it has been several times reissued but usually without the plates. This second edition contains the editor's final amendments, including the correction to the part played by Vivian's brigade at Waterloo. A RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, ASSOCIATION COPY. Sandler 3277.
19218vo., First Edition, free endpapers very lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Crisp copy of a valuable collection seldom found other than in ex-institutional state (even the Sandler copy is one such). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Brown & Christie 282; Sandler 3432.
20058vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author combines first-hand accounts of Waterloo with the story of William Siborne, the model-maker attempting to create an accurate representation of the crucial moment of the action.
19968vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and maps and pedigrees in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A detailed guide to the battlefields with many 'than and now' photographs.
19068vo., Fourth Edition, with 2 folding maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The separately published atlas is not present with this copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sandler, 2909
19888vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates and 6 plates in monochrome; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Detailed biographical roll of the battalion, now part of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
19028vo., with plates; original decorative cloth blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, fore-edges lightly spotted, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sandler 1325.
19968vo. First Edition with photographs illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19058vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, top outer corner clipped from front free endpaper; terracotta pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red, white and black, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19078vo., with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and folding map, title lightly browned, wanting blank preliminary; strongly bound in burgundy full calf, sides framed in blind, upper board with arms of Magdalen College surmounting initials 'S.F'., all in gilt, back with flat bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in blind, doublures framed in blind, marbled endpapers, upper joint mildly rubbed with short split (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, crisp copy. Bright copy of a much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1847. Arguably the best of the mid-Victorian accounts of the battle. VERY SCARCE. Sandler 1451.
1838Sm. 8vo., with engraved frontispiece, and engraved and printed titles, engraved title lightly dust-soiled, neat contemporary signature on on printed title; attractviely bound in contemporary halF calf, marbled boards, back with five raised bands, second compartment with green leather labeL ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, ochre endpapers, joints mildly rubbed else a very good, firm copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John W Trist FSA FSI, and the binder's ticket of Cunningham & Son of Ashton under Lyne, on front paste-down. The same owner has augmented this copy by mounting numerous relevant cuttings on endpapers and preliminaries at front and rear. A later issue of the first Bentley Standard Novels edition of 1833 (engraved title so dated) but with no sign of the usual BSN titling. The frontispiece is by Greatbatch after Pickering. Sandler (2305) records a still later edition.
