The Life of Wellington

London: Bickers & Sons, 1883.

Second edition, revised. 8vo. pp viii, [2], 2-387. Frontispiece + 12 plates. Foxing to endpapers and titlepage and sporadically in the margins of the text. Handsomely bound by Bickers in full calf, gilt spine with raised bands, school prize crest to upper board; marbled endpapers to match edges of text block. Presentation inscription dated 1884. A fine copy. Life of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, the greatest English general of the age and the conqueror of Napoleon.