[Deluxe copy] The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow

Being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs, and society 1810-1860. With Portrait, four Woodcuts, and Twenty Etched and Aquatint illustrations from Contemporary Sources by Joseph Grego. London, J.C. Nimmo, 1889, first ed., 2 vols., XXVIII,351; XII,343 p., with 25 plates in either of two conditions: uncoloured proof or hand-coloured (and heightened with gum), original gilt cloth, top edge gilt, 4to.

A large part of the uncoloured plates in vol. 1 with water stain in blank margin (worse at the end); binding somewhat worn and back board and backstrip binding 1 trifle affected by damp; traces of ex libris on inside of both boards. Copy from the deluxe edition of 870 numbered copies (this is number 315), with the uncoloured plates in proof for all letters and the finely coloured plates with the letters.