History of the 2nd King Edward’s Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
SHAKESPEAR, Colonel L. W.
NEAR FINE EX-RMA SANDHURST COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Published: [Gale & Polden Aldershot], 1912
Stock code: 49973
Price: £300.00
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page plan and 3 large folding coloured battle plans; original green cloth, roan corners, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy.
THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE MUSEUM OF RMA SANDHURST, AND BEARS ITS NEAT STAMP ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER WITH MS PREsS-MARK ON REAR PASTE-DOWN. 'A good all-round narrative history for the period 1815-1899, with appendices covering the period 1900-1910' (Perkins). Originally published as a stand-alone history, this work is in effect the first (and by far the scarcest) of a four-volume series. Reissued in abridged form in 1950. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE. Perkins, p.498.