Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards (vols. I and II bound together)

xxvii, 448-xx, 552 with half titles and titles to both volumes, 14 figs of medals, 1 of the Battle of Waterloo, plan of Hugemont, view of Hugemont, complete as listed in the Embellishments page and executed by Mr Bragg, Three-quarter purple leather binding with gilt rulings to spine, marbled boards, buff eps. Leather scuffed and faded on spine and worn at corners, some fraying to head and tail of spine, boards faded. Short worm tracks affecting inner margins of plates but not the images. One loose plate offset and frayed at the edge. Armorial bookplate of Viscount Hood with motto "Ventis Secundis".