In the King’s Service
BRERETON, Captain F.S.
A Tale of Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.
Published: Blackie & Son, n.d. [c.1918]
Stock code: 13021
Price: £26.00
8vo., with a frontispiece and 5 plates, free endpapers moderately browned, neat prize inscription dated 1922 on front free endpaper; original blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in yellow, green and black to a design of a Roundhead mounted cavalryman facing a fortress, top and fore-edges lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
With the trade ticket of W. Gamage of London on rear paste-down. Brereton's classic tale was first published in 1901 with eight plates by the same illustrator. Scarce in any edition.