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to which is prefixed a general account of the Volunteer Forces of the United Kingdom. Compiled from official and private sources from 1794 to 1884. Pp. xvi+352, frontispiece, tissue guard (browned, and torn, offset onto title page), 16 coloured plates, appendices, index; demy 8vo; brown cloth, lightly marked and chipped, rebacked with new brown calf spine, gilt lettered & ruled skiver label, upper board lettered in gilt, banded in silver (lightly worn) and with silver insignia at centre, the lower edge of cloth on upper board frayed and missing from dentelle, cloth on lower board with some loss due to chipping; a.e.g.; original endpapers, upper free endpapers with some slight marginal splits and chips, hinge tender at frontispiece, leaves browned, edges a little brittle, top fore-corner of one plate and two leaves lightly chipped, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London, 1885. First edition. White p. 208; Sutcliffe 1/p. 327. *From the library of John Lloyd, with his bookplate on upper free endpaper, and annotations by two family members on upper endpapers ('L. H. Barclay Lloyd, 17 Shaft Crown Mines, Johannesburg' and 'F. Gisslen[?] Lloyd, Capt. 14 Middlesex R.V. from June 1868 to August 1871. Enrolled June 16, 1859'), and two newspaper cuttings (offset) regarding the will of Colonel Sir Joseph Henry Warner (The Standard, 15 Nov 1897) and the consent of the Duke of Cambridge to formally open the new centenary headquarters of the 3rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers at Hornsey (The World, 8 Dec. 1897). Later from the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown.
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