Colonel Cyril Field (9 results)

(Subject: Other Topics - Diverse Subjects) With chapters on the British Soldier, Recruitment, Impressment, Deserters, Officers, Drill, Training, Exercises, Uniform and dress, Guns, Gunners and Gunnery, Mining, Spies and Spying. The book also covers pay and conditions, military mutinies and female warriors. (Published: 1939) (Publisher: William Hodge & Co. Ltd.) (Pagination: 476pp) (Condition: Blue boards. Prev. owner sticker. Good) UL-XXXXXX.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This fine rebound copy is bound in blue cloth covered boards with red titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. A dust wrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. An interesting and informed anthology of armies of former days, their raising, their drill, their arms, equipment and uniforms. Ref II4.…

1st edition chipped dust jacket Near Fine octavo 476pp., index, 'A Military anthology of the days when pomp & circumstance attended the profession of arms and War still was "glorious"'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo.pp.476. Author's own copy: illustrated military bookplate on front paste down of Colonel Cyril Field, depicting a soldier at Arms with a galleon in full sail in the background. Specially bound by the author in a very strong full red leather binding, lettered and decorated in gilt, with interior dentelle borders and bold decorative endpapers, marbled red. A unique custom-made copy with many additional pages of illustrations and hand-written notes tipped in. Black and white illustrations feature historical military costume, equipment and cartoons. Some illustrations hand-drawn, possibly by the author. BOOK: 'A military anthology of the days when pomp and circumstance attended the profession of Arms and war still was "glorious."' Original illustrated dust jacket tipped in, featuring an illustration of the bombardment of Prague by the Prussians in 1648. Very good. Very slight lean. Slight creasing and fading of leather at spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Classic First Edition set. Thick Quarto. Vols 1 & 2 bound in original (edge worn) leather-backed navy boards (x + 324pps. & (x) + (358)pps. A.E.Gilt. , and Vol. 3 (A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919) original (edge-worn) tan cloth-backed navy boards. (xxiii) + 492pps. Well illustrated in colour and Black & white. A Good Set.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. The first official history of the elite British military regiment from their inception under Charles II up until the First World War, with insightful details on their operations and customs. The first and second volume of Britain's Sea Soldiers: A History of the Royal Marines and their Predecessors and of Their Services in Action, Ashore and Afloat, the first official history of the elite royal regiment, written by Colonel Cyril Field. Originally complete in two volumes, with a third volume added by Blumberg three years later. In the publisher's original quarter buckram with blue cloth. Volume I contains a bookplate of the Union Club for local marines at Deal and Walmer to the front pastedown. Volume I contains a portrait frontispiece of Field, all eleven colour plates, and all fifty-five plates in half-tone, while Volume II contains a colour frontispiece, all all eleven other colour plates, and all forty-four plates in half-tone. Most colour illustrations are by French painter and lithographer Victor Huen. Collated complete. Field conducts a comprehensive narrative of the engagements and developments relating to the elite British military regiment, including passages relating to indivudal members, as well as details of the operations they conducted in each conflict ever since the establishment of the 'Maritime Regiment' under Charles II. - Volume I: Including Antiquity and Middle Ages (Introduction), War of Succession, American War of Independence, and Napoleonic Wars amongst others (1664-1815). - Volume II: Including Carlist War, Ashantee Wars, Crimean Wars, the Opium Wars and the Boxer rebellions amongst others (1816-1914). In the publisher's original quarter buckram with blue cloth. Externally, fading and mottling to boards, heaviest to the extremities. Fading to spines and browning to buckram joints. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Blue end papers are clean. Previous owner's Union club bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, mostly firmly bound, with frontispiece to II loose. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning to leaf and plate extremities and a couple of faint spots to immediate first and final leaves. Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three volume set [2 + 1]. 1924-1927. Volumes I & II being Field's - 'A history of the Royal Marines and their predecessors and of their services in action, ashore and afloat, and upon sundry other occasions of moment'. The third volume being Blumberg's - 'A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'. All Quarto's. Vols. I & II: x, 324pp & x, 358pp. 2 frontispieces, 22 coloured plates, 54 half-tone plates, & other text illustrations. Vol III: xxiv, 492pp. Colour frontispiece, 27 plates, 22 text plans, & 7 folding maps in pocket at rear. Uniform bindings of quarter buckram over blue cloth, gilt titles and regimental badge decoration, gilt ship vignette to tail of spines. Extremities rubbed. Spine of Volume III faded. Former owner's name and addresses to blanks and half-titles. Text-blocks spotted, sporadic marginal foxing. Otherwise contents in good order. Overall a 'Very Good' set. Uncommon to find all three volumes together. Very Heavy - shipping to be advised. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A monumental history of the Royal Navy by Colonel Cyril Field adorned with beautiful coloured plates. The first edition of this work. Complete in itself in two volumes, but often seen together with Sir H. E. Blumberg's continuation of thehistory from 1914 to 1919. Written by Colonel Cyril Field, R.M.L.I. With a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty.These volumes contain a detailed history of the Royal Navy from antiquities and up until the outbreak of the First World War.Illustrated with eleven coloured plates and forty-seven half-tone plates as well as numerous further illustrations in text to volume I. Bound without half-tone plate to face p. 290.Volume II with twelve coloured plates and forty-five half-tone plates, and many in-text illustrations. Bound without plate to face p. 96. Library rebound in quarter crushed morocco over cloth covered boards, renewed endpapers. Library shelf number and titles in gilt to spine. Gilt blind stamp to front board vol. I. Externally lovely. Discreet usual library stamps to endpapers and occasional leaf throughout, particularly rear leaves of plates. Coloured plate to face p. 1 vol. I and frontispiece vol. II repaired. Ink proof corrections and marginal annotations to pp. 37, 65-6. 95, and 296 of vol. I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

First Edition. A history of the Royal Marines and their predecessors and of their services in action, ashore and afloat, and upon sundry other occasions of moment. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty. In two volumes. Pp. x+324+x+358(last colophon), 2 frontispieces (1 coloured), tissue guards, 22 coloured plates, tissue guards, 54 half-tone plates, text illustrations, title pages printed in red & black , notes, appendices, index; demy 4to; qr. navy linen, blue cloth boards, lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt insignia to upper boards, spines lightly faded and flecked, boards a trifle marked, fore-corners bruised; scattered foxing, particularly to edges of leaves, occasionally heavy, top fore-corner of two leaves with production fold-over, top margin of one plate lightly stained; The Lyceum Press, Liverpool, 1924. First edition. Together with: Blumberg (H. E.) Compiler. BRITAIN'S SEA SOLDIERS: A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919. Pp. xxiv+492, coloured frontispiece, tissue guard (creased), 27 plates, 22 text plans, 7 large folding maps in pocket at end, title page printed in red & black, appendices, chronological index, general index; demy 4to; qr. navy linen (heavily faded and flecked), blue cloth boards, lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt insignia to upper board, lower fore-corners frayed, faded and bruised; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, top margin of frontispiece water stained, top margin of other plates also lightly stained, some light foxing, fore-edge of several leaves towards end lightly warped; Swiss & Co., Devonport, n.d.[1927]. First edition. White page 254.…