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Sole edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xx, 398; x, 442, (2) pp. Publisher's blindstamped red cloth, gilt to the spines, inscribed on the front flyleaf of volume I "From the editor", the ownership inscription of Admiral Sir James Scott K.C.B. to the half titles. Frontispiece portrait to volume I. Slight tenderness to the front hinge of volume I, wear to the head of the spine and adjacent part of the front joint of volume II, some general bumping and rubbing to the covers, else very good. Wilson had a distinguished career in the British army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He later served as the Whig MP for Southwark and governor of Gibraltar.