The Annals of The Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire.

GRAHAM (Henry).

The Annals of The Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire.

Being a Complete History of The Prince of Wales’ Own Royal Regiment from the Time of its Formation in 1794 to October, 1884. With Six Appendices. Photogravure frontispiece and three similar plates. [Together with:] GRAHAM (Henry). The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire. Vol. II. Being a Complete History of the Prince of Wales’ Own Royal Regiment. From 1893 to 1908. Collotype portrait frontispiece and two other similar portraits, one other collotype plate and three full-page sketch-maps. The first a little browned in the original blue cloth with white diagonal band and gilt medallic devices, gilt Prince of Wales’ feathers, somewhat rubbed, hinges repaired with canvas tape, plate from a different work to lower pastedown; the second near fine in the matching original binding. x, errata slip, 268pp.; viii, 192pp. Liverpool, D. Marples & Co.; Devizes, Geo. Simpson, “Gazette” Printing Works, 1886.

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The first volume contains an account of preparations during the Napoleonic Invasion Scare, and the suppression of industrial and political discontents, the Weaver’s Riots, Machine Riots, Bristol Riots and Chartist Riots. Yeomanry as an instrument of social control. The second has a considerable portion on the raising of three Wiltshire Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry and their services in the Boer War.

The first inscribed from [Lord] Charles F.B. Bruce to Serjeant Thomas Foster, of the Marlborough Troop, in May 1888. Later ownership inscription of Frank Henry, Tetbury, dated in 1897.

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