2 vols. (Vol. I: Corsica to Marengo; Vol. II: Waterloo Campaign). Edited by Charles Somerset de Chait.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(London): The Golden Cockerel Press 1945. Slim folio. Uniformly bound in full crimson & green crushed morocco with bevelled boards gilt lines and the 'bee' design to front covers (slightly discoloured). T.e.g. other edges uncut. Purple & crimson leather end-papers bearing the book-plate of "R.G." (Richard Griffin the celebrated Australian bibliophile and craft book-binder). Colotype portraits as frontispieces as well as 2 title-vignettes and 2 double-page maps at end of each volume. De Luxe limited edition presumably bound by Richard Griffin himself. Preserved in suede-lined dec. slip-case. Fine crisp copy.