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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 384, 32 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 20 cm. Bound in publisher's handsome pictorial cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. George Alfred Henty was a prolific English Victorian novelist and war correspondent (1832-1902). Henty volunteered for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was with a well traveled war correspondent, following the Austro-Italian war of 1866, accompanying Garibaldi at Tirolese. Also he journeyed with Lord Napier through Magdala and Lord Wolseley to Kumassi. He was at the opening of the Suez Canal. He reported the Franco-German War, starved in the the siege of the Paris Commune, and then went to cover the Carlist insurrection in the Pyrenees. "He was in Asiatic Russia at the time of the Khiva expedition, and later saw the desperate hand-to-hand fighting of the Turks in the Serbian War. " Ency. Brit. Vol. 13, p. 303. Henty went on to write over 112 books and over 80 for a juvenile audience. Many of his books feature boys or young men in tumultuous times. Henty was an important popular writer for the advancement of British Imperialism. Kathryn Castle states that, "Henty.exemplified the ethos of the new imperialism, and glorified in its successes," Reading Colonialism through children's books and magazines. Manchester, 1996. p. 55. …

The Imperial Edition. Good set in the original cloth with a gilt-blocked label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Imperial edition. Physical description; 16 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club ; Sketches By Boz ; Great Expectations ; Charles Dickens: a critical study by George Gissing ; Nicholas Nickleby ; Christmas Books ; Bleak House ; Oliver Twitst ; David Copperfield ; Dombey and Son ; Little Dorrit ; The Old Curiosity Shop ; A Tale of Two Cities ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Hard Times and Master Humphrey's Clock ; Barnaby Rudge. Subjects; Charles Dickens (1812-1870). English fiction 19th century. 16 Kg. …

The Imperial Edition. Good set in the original cloth with a gilt-blocked label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Imperial edition. Physical description; 16 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club ; Sketches By Boz ; Great Expectations ; Charles Dickens: a critical study by George Gissing ; Nicholas Nickleby ; Christmas Books ; Bleak House ; Oliver Twitst ; David Copperfield ; Dombey and Son ; Little Dorrit ; The Old Curiosity Shop ; A Tale of Two Cities ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Hard Times and Master Humphrey's Clock ; Barnaby Rudge. Subjects; Charles Dickens (1812-1870). English fiction 19th century. 16 Kg. …