Description

Large quarto hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 248pp., Illustrated with nearly 170 monochrome prints, diagrams and paintings and 40 specially commissioned plates by Angus McBride, containing 120 superb full color studies of officiers, NCO’s, troopers and trumpeters of all branches, dressed in the full range of parade, off-duty and campaign uniforms. First edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. Small old bookseller’s label inside front cover [History Bookshop, London]. No previous ownership marks. Slight yellowing to mylar, else a very clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket.