HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE EIGHTH, OR, THE KING'S REGIMENT OF FOOT:
containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1844. Pp. 118, 5 plates (4 hand-coloured lithographs); demy 8vo; red cloth, \fs24 lettered, ruled and decorated\fs22 in gilt \fs24 & \fs22 blind, spine browned and lightly worn at head and tail, boards marked, edges lightly bruised; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, leaves browned (outer leaves quite browned and brittle), upper free endpaper loosening, frayed along fore-edge and with small piece torn from lower fore-corner, some marginalia; Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, London, 1844. First edition. White p. 60; Sutcliffe 1/p. 67. *From the library of George W. Hawes, with his armorial bookplate on upper free endpaper (which also bears the 1931 stamp of The Royal Scots Club/The Royal Regiment), and his ownership inscription and Regimental details on upper pastedown. Later from the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label also on upper pastedown. With an extra hand-coloured plate of uniform not called for. Item #151370
Price: $120.00