From A.D. 1715 to A.D. 1900. First edition. Coloured frontispiece and fourteen other coloured plates, twelve of them of uniforms, four by Simkin, thirty-three photogravure portraits, two half-tone plates, nine maps and plans, three of them double-page. Very good in the original yellow and blue cloth, title gilt to spine, armorial gilt to the upper board, a.e.g., a little rubbed and scuffed on the boards, spine slightly tanned and chipped. xxxii, 632pp, 1901.
One of the most attractive and sumptuously-produced Cavalry histories. This copy inscribed, “Presented to The Kildare Street Club by The Author” on the front free endpaper.
