Second edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps with some colour in outline, 2 folding tables. 4to. Contemporary full speckled calf, boards ruled in gilt, gilt spine, outer joints cracked, wear to extremities and spine. One folding map protruding along fore edge, appendix contents page misbound at beginning but present. Bookplate to upper pastedown, former bookseller’s descriptions mounted to lower pastedown. xxii, [i], 387pp. London, Printed by C. Roworth and sold by T. Egerton, 1803.
Blackmer 1819 (citing the 1802 first edition): “The basic contemporary account of the Anglo-French conflict in Egypt. [The author] joined Abercromby at Aboukir Bay in March, 1801. He was present at the siege and capitulation of Alexandria, and he entered Cairo in July. Wilson took part in many of the Napoleonic campaigns; later he became Governor of Gibraltar.”
Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 337.
