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History of the 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders: Now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlands, 1794-1894
by Groves, Lt. Col. Percy
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnson, 1894. First edition, limited to 530 copies. Hard cover in original decorated cloth. Published Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnson, 1894. 8vo., 43pp., illus. with 9 colored plates by Harry Payne (8 of uniforms and one of regimental tartan), one tartan fabric sample tipped-in. Blind embossed red cloth with black spine titles, gilt cover titles and crest, bevelled edges, patterned endpapers. A few spots of fade/soil/splash to the cloth. Very good, binding tight, pages and plates clean. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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- Title
- History of the 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders: Now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlands, 1794-1894
- Author
- Groves, Lt. Col. Percy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- W. & A. K. Johnson
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- England & Europe; Military;
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