11 volumes. Engraved title-pages to each volume of the first series; 58 portraits; nine folding maps, some colored; 12 plates and one folding plan. (8vo), period quarter brown diced morocco and marbled paper boards, gilt decorated and lettered spines. First Editions.
An unusually long run (and almost complete, save for the final two volumes) of this interesting and important monthly periodical published for British military officers. It contains military histories, news on current campaigns (particularly the conflicts with Napoleon's France on the Iberian Peninsula), biographies of prominent officers, lists of promotions, essays on the art of war, correspondence, etc.
Oddly included in volume seven is Voyage Down the Rhine From Mentz to Holland by "the Late Mrs. Radcliffe, Authoress of The Mysteries of Udolpho, etc." When this was issued Ann Radcliffe was to live for another ten years. There are other, but less interesting, anomalies, such as a printing of Voltaire's Life of Peter the Great, etc. Ownership signature in volumes one through four and nine of Sir Charles Chichester (1795-1847) who "was reputed one of the best regimental commanding officers in the British army" - DNB.
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Condition:
Light wear and some rubbing to bindings; occasional light foxing to plates and darkening to textblock, the folding map for the January 1811 issue is laid in and possibly provided from another copy; a couple of folding plates torn along the folds, without loss; a very good set in a handsome contemporary binding.