A List of all the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines…
A List of all the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half-Pay: with an Index and a Succession of Colonels. The Fifty-fifth edition.
London: War Office, 1807.
Thick folio, a splendid copy with generous margins on large paper, in a fine period binding of crimson straight-grained morocco, all edges gilt, sides panelled in gilt with greek key borders, spine panelled in gilt with green leather label.
A magnificent copy of an officer's vade-mecum, the who's who of the British army at a moment in time, and as the entire list of British Army officers in 1807, the crucial bible for issues of promotion and preferment, as well as location and secondment. This issue is of note for including a breakdown of the officers of the New South Wales Corps (p. 311) serving under Colonel Francis Grose, the roll call of familiar names beginning with Grose, Paterson, Foveaux and Johnstone (spelled thus).
A magnificent copy of an officer's vade-mecum, the who's who of the British army at a moment in time, and as the entire list of British Army officers in 1807, the crucial bible for issues of promotion and preferment, as well as location and secondment. This issue is of note for including a breakdown of the officers of the New South Wales Corps (p. 311) serving under Colonel Francis Grose, the roll call of familiar names beginning with Grose, Paterson, Foveaux and Johnstone (spelled thus).
Such publications were sometimes bound in magnificent style, as here, but do not often survive in this sort of perfect condition.
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