8vo. viii, 224pp. Uncut. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers bound in. Marbled endpapers, very occasional pencilled annotations, scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper.

Novelist and poet George Meredith's (1828-1909) copy of a revised edition of German military history Franz Josef Adolf Schneidawind's (1799-1857) martial memoir of Austrian field marshal Joseph, Graf Radetzky (1766-1858), veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the First Italian War of Independence.