History of the First Battalion, Coldstream Guards during the Eastern Campaign, from February 1854 to June 1856. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH WARM ENCOMIUM

WYATT John

Published by [Privately Printed],, 1858

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8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard worn but present) and folding chart, frontispiece recto moderately browned; green pebble-grain cloth, red roan back lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, patterned endpapers, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE: 'For Sgt. Wallis, Coldstream Guards, with the author's best wishes for the future, which delivers to follow the call of a good soldier. Oct 25th 1858'. Wyatt died 2 April 1874 aged 48, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery. Includes Officers Roll. VERY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.8; Turan 642; White, p.43.

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• Title: History of the First Battalion, Coldstream Guards during the Eastern Campaign, from February 1854 to June 1856. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH WARM ENCOMIUM
• Publisher: [Privately Printed],
• Publication Date: 1858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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