THE REMINISCENCES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF CAPTAIN GRONOW: Being Anecdotes of the Camp, Court, Clubs, and Society 1810-1960. -- With portrait and 32 Illustrations from contemporary sources by Joseph Grego, coloured by Hand.
John C. Nimmo. London. 1892, 1892.
ENLARGED GREGO EDITION. TWO VOLUMES. Large 8vo. (9 X 6 inches). Enlarged, with more illustrations, from the 1889 edition. Fully illustrated throughout with 32 hand coloured engraved plates by Joseph Grego, as called for, plus extra illustrated with another 86 eighteenth and nineteenth century plates bound in, a mixture of portraits and scenes from society, with many being hand coloured. A Lovely clean copy in fine twentieth century leather bindings. Half brown mottled morocco on the boards, with lighter brown colour on the plain spines. Both spines with five wide raised bands, each with four gilt ruled lines. Compartments with double ruled gilt borders. Two tan and one green label, ruled and lettered in gilt, to each spine. Boards covered with green cloth. Top edges gilt, the others untrimmed. Plain off white endpapers. Publishers original spines and front boards bound in at the rear of each volume. Neat previous owner colour bookplate on the front pastedown of volume one. A fine copy in a beautiful quality binding.
Item #11602
Price: £600.00