The Border from a Soldier’s Point of View
SITWELL, William
With Drawings by Robert Bertram.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: Andrew Reid Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [1927]
Stock code: 36535
Price: £34.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 13 plates and a large folding coloured map in pocket at end (map worn at some folds), armorial endpapers lightly spotted; green cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly worn else a very good, bright, clean copy.
A valuable chronological record of the histories of Northumberland and Cumberland so far as they affect the Border. The work contains an alphabetical list of most of the castles, peles and towers with a short notice of each, together with an account of the principal Border battles and a summary of the Border Laws.