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TULLOCH, Alexander Bruce, Major-General.

Recollections of Forty Years' Service.

Publisher: Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903

Stock code: 66603

Price: £100 Currency Conversion

First edition. "Active service from the Crimean War [after which he was involved in the inquiry into the Commissariat Department] to the expedition to Egypt, 1882" (Bruce) An important interlude relates to service in China, Taku Forts, taking of Peking. This copy signed on the first blank, "Yours sincerely, Alex. B. Tulloch."

Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, dark blue surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, spine relined, light toning, a very good copy.

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