1983 Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army in the Western Pyrenees and South of France, in the Years 1813-14; Under Field-Marshal the Marquess of Wellington

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Bound in the publisher's original quarter red cloth with grey cloth boards.

This copy is a limited edition, being number two hundred and thirty four of two hundred and fifty copies.

This edition is a facsimile edition of the original 1823 edition. First edition, thus.

This copy includes 13 unnumbered leaves of plate, with one fold-out colour attached to half-title verso. Collated, complete.

This edition presents a first-hand account of the latter stages of the Peninsular War, the clash of allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French in the Western Pyrenees and south-west France during 1813–1814.

Captain Robert Batty (1789–1848) was educated at Caius College Cambridge, and was commissioned as an Ensign in the 1st regiment of Foot Guards in 1813, before being placed as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1828, participating in key engagements such as the sieges of San Sebastián, the battles of the Nive, Orthes, Bayonne, and Toulouse, and was wounded at Waterloo. He was also a skilled artist, illustrating the plates and fold-out map in this edition.