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Leather. Zustand: Good. First edition. A first edition of this illustrated historical study of the British Army from The Young England Library. First edition. The Young England Library. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, five folding maps and plans, three colour plates, four black-and-white plates, and three in-text figures. Collated complete. A historical study of various important battles and campaigns for the British Army from Bannockburn in 1314 to two famous marches in 1879 and 1880. With reference to Blenheim, Assaye, the passage of the Douro, Inkerman, and the Siege of Delhi. Written by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist, prominent salmon angler, author of books on angling, and Conservative politician. Edited by George Albemarle Bertie Dewar, an English author and editor. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally, sound with rubbing to the extremities resulting in minor loss to the board edges. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting throughout. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated 1902. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…