HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE THE FIFTH, OR PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOON GUARDS: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685; with its Subsequent Services to 1838. 'Historical Records of the British Army' series.

CANNON, Richard

Verlag: Longman Orme and Co / W. Clowes and Sons London, 1839

Beschreibung

8vo. First edition. pp(8),VIII,VI,(2),99,(1) plus additional engraved series-title (dated 1837) with royal coat-of-arms, and three brightly coloured lithographed plates - one of the regimental standard, the others fine action scenes of the capture of the Bavarian standards at the forcing of the French lines in 1705, and of the Fifth Dragoon Guards at the Battle of Salamanca (1812). Original green pebbled cloth. Front cover with title, date 1838 and coat-of-arms in gilt, both front and rear with blindstamped ruled borders. Original pale yellow endpapers. Backstrip a little faded, and a little inwards-curled & nicked at head and foot. Front cover lightly rubbed and a little marked; outer corners of both front and rear rubbed with slight wear, and variably curled. Endpapers lightly & patchily marked; front endpapers split along hinge, rear endpapers with short split from foot of hinge. Engraved title densely speckled, following leaf (half-title) lightly & patchily toned. Single creases of lengths up to 9cm across upper outer corners of six leaves of text (negligible amount of print affected) and plate of regimental standard (image unaffected), with here & there associated faint dustiness & toning. Ink dash in fore-edge margin of page 35. Two tan blemishes of diameters up to 2cm on page 97 - one in fore-edge margin, the other in text - persisting with diminishing effect & extent to corresponding positions back to page 95 and up to page 99. Contents otherwise faintly toned towards edges, and with occasional isolated spots. Top edge of text-block dust-soiled, other edges age-toned and lightly dust- & handling-marked. Binding holding firmly, contents generally clean and tight. GOOD copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26840

Bibliografische Details

Titel: HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE THE FIFTH, OR ...

Verlag: Longman Orme and Co / W. Clowes and Sons London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1839

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage