HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO EGYPT; TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, A SKETCH OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THAT COUNTRY AND ITS MEANS OF DEFENCE. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, AND A PORTRAIT OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY.

Printed by C. Roworth, 1803

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Year of publication

1803

Place of printing

London

Author

Wilson

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Printed by C. Roworth

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2 volumes. Early printing. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby, 4 fold-out maps, and 4 fold-out charts. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter red calf over marbled paper covered boards, lettered in gilt between raised bands on the spines. xxxi, 300; 314 pp. a handsome set, with a bit of shelf-wear to the extremities and some minor aging to the boards, sometime rebacked to style.

Edizione: an important book. this work went through several editions and was translated into french. the author eventually became a general and the governor of gibraltar but at the time that he wrote this book, he was a lieutenant colonel and serving under sir ralph abercromby. the book became popular because it recounted the cruelty of napoleon towards his prisoners at jaffa and his own soldiers in cairo. the emperor did complain to the british government about the work but nothing was done. in the end, he issued a counter report. wilson later protested corporal punishment in his own army.