From A.D. 1715 to A.D. 1900. First edition. Coloured frontispiece and fourteen other coloured plates, twelve of them of uniforms, four of these by Simkin, thirty-three photogravure portraits, two half-tone plates, nine maps and plans, three of them double-page. Original yellow and blue cloth, title gilt to spine, armorial gilt to the upper board, a.e.g., slightly rubbed and sunned, spine a little water-splashed, but actually very good copy. xxxii, 632pp. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, New York and Bombay, 1901.