By Lieutenant Frederick Hope Pattison
Glasgow   Printed for Private Circulation
9" by 6.5" 41pp. (vi)
A presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of Lieutenant Frederick Hope Pattison's personal account of the Battle of Waterloo, a very scarce piece of Napoleonic history inscribed by the author and printed for private circulation.
By Lieutenant Frederick Hope Pattison

1870 Personal Recollections of the Waterloo Campaign

Glasgow   Printed for Private Circulation
9" by 6.5" 41pp. (vi)
A presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of Lieutenant Frederick Hope Pattison's personal account of the Battle of Waterloo, a very scarce piece of Napoleonic history inscribed by the author and printed for private circulation.
£1,750.00
: 0.75kgs / : 963Z23

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Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Signed

The very scarce first edition. Printed for private circulation. 

The author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the dedication page: "Presented by the author to the **** grand daughter Constance. **** on the 18th June being the fifty fifth anniversary of the great Battle of Waterloo Mount Blow, 18th June 1870'. 

Illustrated with a sepia photographic portrait frontispiece. 

A first hand account of the historic Battle of Waterloo between The French Imperial Army under Napoleon and the British army led by The Duke of Wellington. The account was written by Lieutenant Frederick Hope Pattison from his letters to his grandchildren, being part of the 33rd regiment of the Duke of Wellington's army. 

Bound in full crushed morocco, re-backed. Endpapers renewed.

Condition

Bound in full crushed morocco, re-backed. Endpapers renewed. Externally generally smart with rubbing to the extremities and marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with light spotting to the front. Author's inscription to the dedication page.

Very Good

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