The Nearest Guard
( Conwyn MANSEL-JONES ) BRACKENBURY, Sir Henry
A History of Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, from their Institution in 1509 to the Year 1892.
200 COPIES WERE PRINTED; VC ASSOCIATION COPY
Published: Harrison & Sons, 1892
Stock code: 8878
Price: £288.00
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 11 plates (5 large and folding) in monochrome, and 13 illustrations in the text, black endpapers, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; original cloth, sides with double frame border enclosing corps badge elaborately blocked all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, a very good, bright, firm copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). This copy was formerly in the library of Conwyn Mansel-Jones who won the Victoria Cross in South Africa on 27 February 1900. He went on to serve in WWI and was also awarded the DSO and the Legion d'Honneur. Mansel-Jones became CMG and was a member of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1920 until his death in 1942. A letter confirming his purchase of this copy is loosely inserted. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT UNIT HISTORY. White, p.255.