Author: Captain Gronow
Title: The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow
Description: Frome, The R. S. Surtees Society, 1984-1985. Cloth. A smart two volume set of The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow. This is a two volume set of the Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow.Gronow wrote his reminiscences in the early 1860s when he was an old man and they were hugely popular. The first volume of the R. S. Surtees Society's edition combines in a single volume Gronow's Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court and the Clubs at the Close of the Last War with France and Recollections and Anecdotes. Based on the limited edition of 1889 and with 17 full-page colour plates, with thirteen colour plate illustrations from designs by Joseph Grego. The second volume combines Celebrities of London and Paris and Last Recollections with twelve colour plates. Collated, complete.  In the publisher's original binding. Externally smart with some marks to the boards and bumping to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Joseph Grego. Very Good Indeed .

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