Item #118342 Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-Third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh [sic] Fusiliers). Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of its Subsequent Services to 1889. Arranged by Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring, Royal Welch Fusiliers, in Continuation of the Compilation published in 1850 by Richard Cannon, Esq., Adjutant-General's Office. Royal Welch Fusiliers, Major Rowland BROUGHTON-MAINWARING.
Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-Third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh [sic] Fusiliers). Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of its Subsequent Services to 1889. Arranged by Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring, Royal Welch Fusiliers, in Continuation of the Compilation published in 1850 by Richard Cannon, Esq., Adjutant-General's Office
Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-Third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh [sic] Fusiliers). Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of its Subsequent Services to 1889. Arranged by Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring, Royal Welch Fusiliers, in Continuation of the Compilation published in 1850 by Richard Cannon, Esq., Adjutant-General's Office

Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-Third Regiment, or, Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh [sic] Fusiliers). Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of its Subsequent Services to 1889. Arranged by Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring, Royal Welch Fusiliers, in Continuation of the Compilation published in 1850 by Richard Cannon, Esq., Adjutant-General's Office

London, Hatchards, 1889.

Octavo, lviii, 372, [2] (vignette illustration, verso blank) pages with a full-page plan plus a Woodburytype frontispiece ('"Billy" Her Majesty's Goat') and 23 chromolithographs.

Full vellum with the regimental colours applied across the front cover, all edges gilt, with gilt inner dentelles (the publisher's deluxe binding); vellum a little marked and discoloured, with a tiny nick to the leading edge of the front cover; title page discoloured by an acidic tissue-guard (no longer present); overall an excellent copy.

A short printed note indicates 'Major Mainwaring's compilation commences with the year 1825'. Inscribed and signed to 'Erlistoun Barr-Smith [sic] from Rowland Mainwaring S.S. Balaarat [sic] Feby 1891. "Grace was in [all] her steps, heaven in her eye | for every gesture dignity and love"' (Adam describing Eve in Milton's 'Paradise Lost'). Erlistoun Barr Smith (1868-1913) was one of seven daughters of the wealthy SA businessman and philanthropist Robert Barr Smith and his wife Joanna. 'Erlistoun proved the most problematic. Joanna especially found her moody, wilful and argumentative. She loved music but was troubled by increasing deafness. Joanna took her daughter to Germany when she was 21 hoping to encourage her to study music and German, only to discover that nothing could be done about her hearing and that she would soon become deaf. On their return to England, Erlistoun appears to have suffered a breakdown followed by some mysterious dishonourable behaviour which both enraged and shamed her parents ... She returned to Australia and in 1898 at the age of 30 married the Adelaide University Professor of Philosophy and English Literature, William Mitchell, bore two children and sadly died in her mid-forties from tuberculosis' (University of Adelaide website). When this book was presented to her, young Erlistoun was presumably on her maiden voyage from Australia, and clearly caught the eye of Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring (1850-1926).

Item #118342

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