The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914 [with] The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. 'Nulli Secundus'. FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE ARMISTICE: NEAR FINE EXTENDED SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914 [with] The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. 'Nulli Secundus'. FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE ARMISTICE: NEAR FINE EXTENDED SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1928-1929
- Author
- Hall Colonel Sir John
- Publishers
- Oxford University Press
- Keyword
- military, south africa, boer war, ww1, wwi, great war, guards, coldstream guards, ross of bladensburg, john hall, unit history, unit histories
- Languages
- English
Description
Together 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 7 maps in the text (a number folding and coloured in outline) and 27 maps (a number folding) in separate volume; navy cloth, upper boards framed and blocked in gilt enclosing regimental badge in gilt and colours, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine extended set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Hall. The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914 (1 vol., 1929); Ross-of-Bladensburg. The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918 (3 vols., 1928). The standard history of the regiment from the conclusion of the Egyptian Campaign to the end of the Great War. First and Second Battalions served in the Boer War. In the Great War the regiment fielded three battalions , all of which went to France and remained there throughout the conflict. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS AN EXTENDED SET IN THIS CONDITION. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe, p.6; White p.43.
