Military. [Drummond (Brevet Major Hugh F., Scots Fusilier Gu...

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Military. [Drummond (Brevet Major Hugh F., Scots Fusilier Guards)], Letters from the Crimea, sole edition, London: [?Privately] Printed by Norris & Son, 1855, 271pp, original red cloth, uncut, square 12mo, Muller (John, Professor of Artillery and Fortification), A Treatise of Artillery [...], first edition, London: Printed for John Millan, 1757, red-ruled title-page, pp: xvi, 309, [1] (advert), M7 & M8 transposed, frontispiece and 28 folding plates, former staining and some repairs, but with no loss of legibility or image, toned, 19th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, etc., (3).

The one copy of Drummond's Letters located on OCLC at the NLS mentions a plate, here without, yet the volume appears complete in itself and there's no traces of one ever having been bound in. Furthermore, the book's scarcity implies that Drummond's family, following his death in action on 13th August 1855, had the book privately printed as a memorial to their son.