8vo. viii, [2], 125, [3], 24pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed and a trifle marked. Residue of excised bookplate to FEP, later inked ownership inscription pasted to recto of FFEP, lightly spotted. Presentation copy, inscribed to verso of FFEP: ' With the Authors / Compliments'.

The first edition of British colonial civil servant Henry Jeffreys Bushby's (1820-1903) epistolary account of his experiences during the Crimean War, including lively and personal recollections of the siege of Sevastopol and the Battles of Balaclava and Inkerman from the oft-neglected perspective of a non-combatant. Two further editions appeared in the same year as the first.