MEMOIRS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MILITARY CAREER OF JOHN SHIPP 1894 FIRST EDITION FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE

[SHIPP, JOHN; CHICHESTER, H. MANNERS]. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, Late a Lieut in His Majesty's 87th Regiment. London: T. Fisher Unwin, MDCCCXCIV [1894].

SECOND EDITION, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (22cm x 14cm x 4cm), pp. 386. English text with an introduction by H. Manners Chichester, and illustrations throughout. Handsomely rebound in half calf gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, cloth sides, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, half-title, portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard plus 8 illustrated plates, decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces, appendix to rear. Printed by the Unwin Brothers, at the Gresham Press. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure. Very faint mottling to cloth, the covers otherwise excellent. The interior very well-preserved. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A beautiful copy.