Buy this book on-line HAYTHORNTHWAITE, PHILIP J - Intro by: : MILITARY MEMOIRS OF FOUR BROTHERS ENGAGED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY AS WELL AS IN THE NEW WORLD AND AFRICA,AS ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE - THE SURVIVOR (THOMAS FERNYHOUGH).UK.KENT.SPELLMOUNT LIMITED,2002. ISBN 1862271275.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[First published 1829,with a 2nd edn in the following year; a 3rd edn,of 1838,was limited to only 30 copies,published anonymously,printed for the author's friends.This facsimile edn 2002.]FINE/VG. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated pictorial vignette ilustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no edge nicks or tears present.A light abrasion+ indent/scoring to upper wrap,with some minimal indents/scoring to rear wrap, described hard but fairly and honestly,else still VG.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,unmarked, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip,a b/w headband and immaculate plain grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,v-xiiipp+vipp+2-275pp [paginated] includes introduction by Haythornthwaite, book's preface,12 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,b/w facsimile engraving frntis,facsimile title page and modern publisher's advert to rear.
The Fernyhoughs of Lichfield provided four officers to the British naval and military forces,two of whom died on service with the Royal Marines.The letters and journals of two of the brothers provide a fascinating account of some of the more important,and some of the lesser- known campaigns and operations of the period,including the Trafalgar campaign,the expedition to South America,and the Peninsular War,Robert Fernyhough serving in the latter with that most elite and famous corps,the 95th Rifles,later the Rifle Brigade.
Thomas Fernyhough,the brother who compiled the account,was a noted historian and researcher,and produced a book which is not only one of the rarest contemporary memoirs of the Napoleonic Wars,but one which illuminates the services and tribulations of a typical military family at this most crucial period in British history.
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