Field compiled and edited colonel cyril (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo.pp.476. Author's own copy: illustrated military bookplate on front paste down of Colonel Cyril Field, depicting a soldier at Arms with a galleon in full sail in the background. Specially bound by the author in a very strong full red leather binding, lettered and decorated in gilt, with interior dentelle borders and bold decorative endpapers, marbled red. A unique custom-made copy with many additional pages of illustrations and hand-written notes tipped in. Black and white illustrations feature historical military costume, equipment and cartoons. Some illustrations hand-drawn, possibly by the author. BOOK: 'A military anthology of the days when pomp and circumstance attended the profession of Arms and war still was "glorious."' Original illustrated dust jacket tipped in, featuring an illustration of the bombardment of Prague by the Prussians in 1648. Very good. Very slight lean. Slight creasing and fading of leather at spine.…