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Paperback. Condition: Good. Griffiths, Gordon: Cover (illustrator). First Edition. 63 pages. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Printed on glossy stock. Average wear. Minor pen mark atop front cover otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy.

Foreword by Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Musson. In four volumes. Volume I. The 53rd (Shropshire Regiment, 1755-1881. Volume II. The 85th (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment, 1759-1881. Volume III. 1881-1968. Volume IV. The Shropshire Militia and Volunteer. More than 1400 pages (duplicated typescript), stapled, mounted coloured photographic plates, black & white illustrations, maps (some coloured), loosely inserted errata slip, earlier pencilled collation marks; f'cap. folio; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, some edges lightly bruised, lower hinge separated from staples Volume I; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, some offsetting and light foxing; The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Shrewsbury, U.K., n.d.[c.1966-1969]. White p. 299; Sutcliffe, 1/p. 317. *Largely reproduced from other histories, seven volumes in this series were projected, but publication ceased with Volume IV. Volumes IV, V, and VI were consolidated into Volume III, with the planned Volume III issued as Volume IV. The intended Volume VII was eventually issued separately as G. Archer Parfitt's History of the Hereford Light Infantry.