The life of wellington.
London.
Bickers & Son, 1883.
New edition, revised, condensed and completed.
8vo.
viii, [2], With a portrait frontispiece, a further 10 plates in permanent photography, and an engraved folding plan of the Battle of Waterloo. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros of Hillbrow School, Rugby to upper board, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, upper board, spine, and top-edge heavily sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
A revised edition of Irish author William Hamilton Maxwell's (1791-1850) authoritative biography of the Duke of Wellington, first issued in three volumes between 1839 and 1841.
£ 95.00
Antiquates Ref: 16486