Shelfmark
Ng.6.06 - Ng.6.08
Author
Title
The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 - 1918 / by Lieut.-Colonel the Right Hon. Sir Frederick Ponsonby ... ; with an introduction by Lieut.-General the Earl of Cavan ; maps by Mr. Emery Walker ; in three volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Macmillan and Co., ..., 1920.
Physical description
3 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Provenance
Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Binding
Brown leather half-binding over marbled paper covered boards; gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge ; bound by Best & Co.
Copy-specific note
Vol. 1: At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, signed in ms. by Frederick Ponsonby, the Earl of Cavan, Emery Walker and Henry Streatfeild on t.p.. Posthumous signatures of Lieutenant-Colonel L. R. Fisher-Rowe and Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. A. Smith pasted to t.p. Signed in ms. by King George V below frontispiece. Ms. inscription by Posonby tipped-in to t.p. verso.
Copy-specific note
Vol. 2: At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, signed in ms. by Frederick Ponsonby, Emery Walker, Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught (Field-Marshal), Brigadier-General C. E. Corkran, Brigadier-General G. F. Trotter and Major-General G. D. Jeffreys on t.p.
Copy-specific note
Vol. 3: At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, signed in ms. by Frederick Ponsonby, Emery Walker, Brigadier-General C. R. Champion de Crespigny, Brigadier-General B. N. Sergison-Brooke, Brigadier-General A. F. A. N. Thorne and Brigadier-General Lord Henry Seymour on t.p. Signed in ms. by Edward, Prince of Wales, below frontispiece.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: 209.30.1-3.
Subject
Great Britain. Army Grenadier Guards.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Lambart, Rudolph, 1865 - 1946 Earl of Cavan,
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B33856