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(WELLINGTON, Arthur, Duke of) ROBERTS, Lord.
The Rise of Wellington.
With Portraits and Plans. Second Edition.
Second edition. Inscribed by the author on the front blank, "Maurice Woods from the author Gen Lord Roberts. 19 Nov: 1905". This copy from the library of Frederick Sleigh, Lord Roberts of Kandahar, one of the most important British military figures of the nineteenth-century, described as "perhaps the ablest field commander since Wellington" (ODNB). A very handsomely bound copy with an apt association.
Octavo (185 × 120 mm). Early 20th-century red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine and edges of boards a little darkened, endpapers tanned from turn-ins, contents toned. An excellent copy.
