The King's Own, Royal Lancaster Regiment; Cannon, Richard [Compiler]

RECORDS OF THE BRITISH ARMY: The Fourth or The King's Own, Regiment of Foot [preliminary title].

HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE FOURTH, or the King's Own, Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1680, and of its subsequent services to 1839. Pp. [viii]+12+x+152, 4 lithographs, including lithographed Regimental title page, which is foxed (3 hand-coloured); demy 8vo; red cloth, \fs24 lettered, ruled and decorated\fs22 in gilt & blind, backstrip lightly browned, edges slightly bruised; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, leaves browned, outer leaves brittle, with upper free endpaper detached and chipped and split along fore-edge, and lower free endpaper chipped along fore-edge, lower fore-corner of several leaves lightly bruised; Longman, Orme, & Co./W. Clowes and Sons, London, 1839. First edition. Sutcliffe 1/p. 41. *Sutcliffe notes that only two plates are called for but there are always at least three. An uncoloured plate of uniform facing page 54 is present in some copies, but does not appear in all copies of the early impressions (as here). Item #152321

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