The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign 1809-1815
( Charles OMAN ) TOMKINSON, [W.]
By Lieut. Col. Tomkinson. Edited by his Son James Tomkinson. Second Edition.
SIR CHARLES OMAN'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE
Published: Swan Sonnenschein, 1895
Stock code: 20436
Price: £640.00
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, 2 plates in photogravure and 5 folding maps, neat signature on front free endpaper verso, half-title, frontispiece and title mildly spotted ; original red cloth, upper board framed in blind enclosing regimental crest of 16th Light Dragoons in gilt, gilt back, black endpapers, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy.
SIR CHARLES OMAN'S COPY WITH HIS NINETEENTH CENTURY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Tomkinson's Diary was first published in 1894 (a number of Press reviews is given on half-title verso). Widely regarded as a classic personal account of the campaign, it has been several times reissued but usually without the plates. This second edition contains the editor's final amendments, including the correction to the part played by Vivian's brigade at Waterloo. A RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, ASSOCIATION COPY. Sandler 3277.