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Grant, James : Recent British Battles on Land and Sea. With Numerous Illustrations

(London: Cassell & Company, no date)

Large 8vo; original green half-morocco with matching pebble-grained cloth sides; spine with raised bands gilt, and title lettered direct in gilt to second compartment; marbled edges and endpapers; pp. xi + (i) + 624, incl. index; woodcut illustrations and maps throughout. Boards a little rubbed, extremities worn, especially to joints at head, and corners turned; hinges starting, but with archival tape reinforcing; earlier owner's name signed verso of front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout. A good copy. This, the fourth volume in the series, published circa. 1897, is complete in its own right, without indications internally or externally of belonging to a larger work. Very well illustrated with pictures from the contemporary illustrated press, including work by several well-known special correspondents, the book conveys the feel of the times, and covers the final Frontier War in South Africa, the Basotho Gun War, the Anglo-Zulu War, the Sekukuni Campaign, the First Anglo-Boer War, besides the conflicts in Afghanistan, the Sudan and Egypt, and some minor skirmishes.

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