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WOOD, Evelyn.
From Midshipman to Field Marshal.
Third edition, same year, same month as the first. "One of the more notable volumes of military reminiscences, covering the period of the Crimean War" (Bruce). This copy with the armorial bookplate and Bitteswell Hall ink-stamp of Major Robert Herbert Heath Jary, 12th Lancers, who served in the Kaffir War of 1850-3, the Crimea, and the Indian Mutiny.
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to upper board, and to the spine together with naval buttons and field marshal's baton, top edges gilt, the others uncut. Photogravure portrait frontispiece to each, 8 half-tone plates and 14 folding maps in all A little rubbed overall, spines slightly sunned, mild lean, light toning, scattered foxing, a very good set.
