The Illustrated London News Record; Spenser Wilkinson

The Illustrated London News Record of the Transvaal War, 1899-1900: The Achievements of the Home and Colonial Forces in the Great Conflict with the Boer Republics

London, The Illustrated London News and Sketch , c1900. First edition. Cloth. An issue from the Illustrated London News on the Transvaal War with plates, full-page illustrations and a page of advertisements. A first edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated throughout, including eight plates of photogravures, one of which is the frontispiece. Collated complete.An account of the Transvaal War from the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine, The Illustrated London News. Includes the record of the war by Spenser Wilkinson, known primarily for his work on military subjects.With a page of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original cloth binding. Externally, worn with rubbing heaviest to the hinges and spine. Cloth coming away to the head and tail of spine. Hinges are weak, with amateur reinforcements assisting the attachments. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional spotting, heaviest to the endpapers. Handling marks to the paper. Good Only . Ill.: Numerous Illustrators. Good Only .

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Book number: 907Y35

Catalogue: History & Culture

Keywords: History Transvaal War Illustrated Transvaal War Numerous Illustrators

Wilkinson, Spenser

British Policy in South Africa

London Sampson Low 1899, 1899. Paperback. G 1st Fair.

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Book number: 14646

Keywords: BOER WAR SOUTH AFRICA MILITARY NON FICTION

Wilkinson, Spenser

"Clausewitz and the Right Way of Thinking About Short Wars" in Spectator (January 16, 1915)

London, 1915. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with brief edgewear. Complete issue. Near Fine.

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Book number: b34987

Wilkinson, Spenser

The Early Life of Moltke; a Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford, May 10, 1913

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1913. Softcover. Ex-library, with the usual ownership markings; stapled edge reinforced with binder's tape, split and frayed; cover edges sun-faded; lacks section at top corner of rear cover; tears at top corner of last few pages; pages slightly toned; otherwise very good condition. 28p. .

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Book number: 44922

Catalogue: German History

Spenser Wilkinson

The French Army Before Napoleon

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this military history on the French military before Napoleon's day. The first edition of this work.An interesting collection of lectures discussing the status and situation of the French army before Napoleon. Written by Spenser Wilkinson, Chichele Professor of Military History and a Fellow of All Souls College.With the ownership bookplate of Sir John Moore Library, Shorncliffe, to the front pastedown. Sir John Moore was a British Army general active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, known for his training reforms and his death at the Battle of Corunna.Illustrated with vignette diagrams in the text. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; spine is a little discoloured and faded, with a small Tippex shelf number to the tail of the spine and extremities. Library bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean and occasionally unopened to the head. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 807R60

Catalogue: Naval & Military History

Keywords: Sir John Moore Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte French Revolution Napoleon French Military History None

Spenser Wilkinson

From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1899. First American edition. 508p; plates. Red cloth. Spine faded. Ex-libris from private historical society library; only ex-libris marks are a library bookplate and a shadow on spine where shelf label removed. Text clean and tight. A hardcover book in good condition. Biographies of 12 of Britain's leading military commanders of the 17th-18th centuries. .

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Book number: 110789

Keywords: Army

Wilkinson, Spenser

"How Clausewitz Failed to Understand Napoleon" (letter to editor) in Spectator (January 23, 1915)

London, 1915. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with brief edgewear. Complete issue. Near Fine.

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Book number: b34989

Wilkinson, Spenser

"Inhumanity and Clausewitz" in Spectator (January 9, 1915)

London, 1915. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with brief edgewear. Complete issue. Near Fine.

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Book number: b34993

Spenser Wilkinson

Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith

Westminster, Archibald Constable & Company, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of these historical notes on the Boer War by Spenser Wilkinson, who was an influential figure in military matters. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1853-1937) was an English writer. From 1882 to 1892, he wrote occasional pieces on military subjects for the Manchester Guardian. Convinced as early as 1874 that Britain was inadequately armed, he increasingly devoted his attention to the subject of the national defence. He became a key figure in the founding of the Navy League of Great Britain in 1894. Wilkinson's views on military affairs remained widely influential until his death. During the early months of the Boer War (1899-1900) he made remarkably accurate forecasts of military movements. Here he comments on lessons learned from the Boer War, from week to week, until the relief of Ladysmith. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, with some bumping to the boards and to the head of the spine, and some fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot throughout, more so to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 840M10

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: Spenser Wilkinson Boer War Military history Boer War None

Wilkinson, Spenser

Moltke's Military Correspondence 1870-71

Printed for Private Ciculation at the Unversity Press, 1922. Soft Cover. Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891) was the most famous European soldier of the nineteenth-century. This is the rare first edition boundd in a card printer wrapper for Private Circulation at the Universiy Press, Oxford dated 1922. Full title: Moltke's Military Correspondence 1870-71 Published by the Prussian General Staff department for Military History. First Section ' The War to the Battle of Sedan. 134p. The work was precised by Spenser Wilkinson and 253 numbered papers are summarised.The folding map is in near fine condotion. The book is tight and clean and without marks or signatures but there is some light toning and some edge and corner wear. See scans. . Near Very Good

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Book number: 009860

Wilkinson, Spenser

"Napoleon and Moltke" in Spectator (February 6, 1915)

London, 1915. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with brief edgewear. Complete issue. Near Fine.

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Book number: b34990

Spenser Wilkinson

The Nation&Apos;S Awakening Essays Towards a British Policy

London , Archibald Constable And Co. 1896. First edition. Cloth. A late Victorian copy of this British political work. Very scarce first edition. Wilkinson was very well connected to key figures in politics and in the armed forces as he journalist and had long hoped for an academic appointment, as his interests increasingly turned toward historical study. He was elected the first Chichele Professor of Military History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College in 1909. During World War I he became—like Clausewitz's foremost German proponent at the time, Hans Delbrück--an energetic critic of his nation's counterproductive strategy and policy. He remained an influential voice in Britain until his death in 1937. In a red cloth binding with gilt title detail to spine. Externally generally sound, with bumping to extremities, a little loss of cloth at the head and tail, and discolouration to the spine. The hinges are slightly strained. Internally binding is strained in places. Pages are generally bright and clean with light foxing to endpapers, and a small closed tear to the top right corner of the front free endpaper. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: GEN36-C-10

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Politics First Edition Spenser Wilkinson First Edition None