Lot 74: CANNON Richard (1779-1865). Historical Records of the British Army. Historical Record of the Life Guards . London: Longman Orme and Co., 1835. FIRST EDITION [ Together with :] PACKE, Edmund. An Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of Horse

CANNON Richard (1779-1865). Historical Records of the British Army. Historical Record of the Life Guards. London: Longman Orme and Co., 1835. FIRST EDITION [Together with:] PACKE, Edmund. An Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, or Oxford Blues. London: William Clowes, 1834 [with:] 1st-11th and 13th-17th cavalry regiments, The First or The Royal Regiment of Dragoons, Second Dragoons or Scots Greys, Fourth or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, Sixth Inniskilling Dragoons [plus:] 1st-24th, 40th, 53rd, 56th, 61st, 67th, 70th and 72nd foot regiments [and:] Cape Mounted Riflemen. Together 55 volumes, 8° (210 x 130mm). Lithographic plates, most hand-coloured. (Very occasional faint offsetting and browning.) All finely bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco, gilt decorative covers, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Lord FitzRoy Somerset (later 1st Baron Raglan, ownership inscription to front pastedowns) -- modern armorial bookplates.

A SUPERB SET OF CANNON'S REGIMENTAL HISTORIES, bound in presentation bindings for Raglan. (55)