WELLINGTON'S OPERATIONS IN THE PENINSULA 1808-1814 BY LEWIS BUTLER 1904 1st Ed.

[BUTLER, LEWIS, CAPTAIN]. Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula (1808-1814). London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904.

Hardcover. First edition. In two volumes, complete Leather-bound. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), pp. [x], (2), 418; [x], (2), 419-840. English text. Volume I with a frontispiece folding map. 27 folding sketch diagrams throughout the set. Exquisitely bound in contemporary half-calf signed by Mudie. Five raised spine bands. Compartments and bands ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt. Twin morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled boards, page edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Publisher's device to title-pages. Index in double columns to rear of volume II. Condition: NEAR FINE. Bindings very well preserved. Contents and covers clean. Without previous ownership markings. Author's compliments slip inserted into volume I. A scarce set.