1934 Old Cavalry Stations

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and forty-six drawings in black and white by the author. A volume revisiting the history of old cavalry stations around the United Kingdom. Retracing the history of cavalry stations, with descriptions, in East Anglia, Wessex, the South and Kent, London and home counties, and roads to the North, as well as Edinburgh and Newcastle. Written by Bernard Granville Baker, a British soldier, author, and painter specialising in military subjects. With a foreword by Field Marshal the Viscount Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, a prominent British military figure and administrator, known for his leadership during the First World War.