Fought near Suakin, March 22nd, 1885, under Major-General Sir John Carstairs M’Neill, in its Relation to the Mahdist Insurrection in the Eastern Sudan and to the Campaigns of 1884 and 1885.
First edition. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and three similar plates, tinted double page map, a full-page plan and illustrations to the text. 4to. Original burgundy cloth, gilt Sudanese “crusader” sword to the upper board, in blind to the lower board. Joints split with front board nearly detached, textblock cracking. l, 400pp. London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1887.
This copy number 128 of 500 copies. Ex-United Services Club, with their bookplate.
