MEMOIRS Of The LATE WAR: Comprising the Personal Narrative of Captain Cooke, of the 43rd Regiment Light Infantry; The HISTORY Of The CAMPAIGN Of 1809 In PORTUGAL, by the Earl of Munster; And a NARRATIVE Of The CAMPAIGN Of 1814 In HOLLDAND, by Lieut. T. [i.e., J] W. D Moodie, H. P. 21st Fusileers. In Two Volumes

Cooke, Captain [John]. Munster, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence; 1st Earl of [1794 - 1842]. Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar [1797 - 1869]

Published by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831

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2 volumes: x, [2], 321, [1 (blank)]; viii, 314 pp. 12mo. 8" x 4-7/8" The account by Munster was originally published in parts (beginning in 1829) in the United Service Journal under the title: A Revised Journal of an Officer on the Staff of the Army. Moodie's narrative was also originally published in the same journal. Of note, prior to each volume's t.p., the publisher has an advert for this very journal, centered on a review by the Limerick Chronicle, which begins "The United Services Journal is confessedly one of the best periodicals of it kind that have ever issued from the Public Press." Minor wear. PO bookplates to title leaf versos. A VG - VG+ set. Later 19th C. maroon half-calf with complementary marbled paper boards. TEG. Seller Inventory # 38277

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Title: MEMOIRS Of The LATE WAR: Comprising the ...

Publisher: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London

Publication Date: 1831

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition.