Beschreibung:

21,5 : 13,5 cm. Title, Dedication, 188 pages, 15 hand-coloured aquatint platesdrawn and etched by Rowlandson. Full brown morocco on 5 raised bands, spine with gilt floral decoration, two title-labesl, boards with gilt filets, inside dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers (signed Root and Son)

Bemerkung:

'Humorous narrative of the experiences of an officer in the Peninsula War, illustrated by the pre-eminent cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson'. - "To the Subalterns of the British Army. Gentlemen, I shall , I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when in dedicating this humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt the only means in my powers of shewing how much I honour and admire them. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With the greatest respect, Your most obedient Servant, The Author." (Dedication). - With Exlibris Almeric Hugh Paget 1st Baron Queenborough - Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough, GBE (14 March 1861 ? 22 September 1949) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was a founder of the Military Massage Service and the Cambridgeshire Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and treasurer of the League of Nations Union. And Exlibris of C. Robert Bignold. - Ocassionally some minor stains, otherwise a fine copy of this curious work on the Napoleon wars in Spain.