The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of the Camp, Court, Clubs & Society 1810-1860, Volume One by Gronow, Captain [Joseph Grego (illusts.)] - 1900

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. BEING ANECDOTES OF THE CAMP COURT, CLUBS & SOCIETY 1810-1860.....384pp, with a frontispiece and 16 illustrations from contemporary 384pp, with a frontispiece and 16 illustrations from contemporary sources.Gronow's memoirs were originally published in 4 series between 1862-66. In 1892 they were reprinted in 2 volumes, this edition is an abridgement. Abridged and with an introduction by John Raymond. There is a small tear a the bottom of the dust jacket.. Second Impression.. Blue cloth. Fine/Fair. 4to - over 93/4" - 12" tall.

Good with brown cloth and blocked crest. With 17 coloured plates. Very good copy but bumped to upper left corner. Very lightly dustmarked to cover.

London. : John C. Nimmo. , 1900. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt, sliver and red coat of arms on front covers, top edge gilt. . very good plus set. . 8vo., 21.8x14 cm. . Personal observations on European life, people and politics in the Regency period. Portrait frontis, numerous engraved plates.

Frome: The R. S. Surtees Society, 1984-1985. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 7" . Joseph Grego. A smart two volume set of The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow. This is a two volume set of the Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow.Gronow wrote his reminiscences in the early 1860s when he was an old man and they were hugely popular. The first volume of the R. S. Surtees Society's edition combines in a single volume Gronow's Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court and the Clubs at the Close of the Last War with France and Recollections and Anecdotes. Based on the limited edition of 1889 and with 17 full-page colour plates, with thirteen colour plate illustrations from designs by Joseph Grego. The second volume combines Celebrities of London and Paris and Last Recollections with twelve colour plates. Collated, complete.  In the publisher's original binding. Externally smart with some marks to the boards and bumping to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean… Read More

UK: The R.S. Surtees Society, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This is the final volume of Gronow 's memoirs like the first volume it doesn't have a dust jacket and is covered in a removable plastic cover. .

London & New York: John C. Nimmo, 1900. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Joseph Grego. A lovely two volume collection of the reminiscences of this Welsh Grenadier Guards officer and writer. Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865) was a military man before commencing an unsuccessful parliamentary career. He wrote four works of reminiscences, this being the first; it is an entertaining work and details society in London and Paris in his time. Gronow was extremely popular and immaculately dressed, and early in life completed in many duels.With a frontispiece portrait of the subject and thirty-two illustrations by Joseph Grego. Collated, complete.With a gild emblem to the front cover of each volume. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, minor bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean bar the occasional spot. Very Good Indeed

New York:: Scribner & Welford,, 1889.. First US edition; No. 479 of 870 copies, with the 25 illustrations in duplicate; one on plate paper, proofs before letters; and the other on Whatman paper with titles, and colored by hand. . publisher's brown gilt cloth. . Old ink private ownership stamp; endsheets in Vol. II foxed; some light use to cloth; both volumes tight and sound.. Large thick 8vo,. Illustrated..

London: John C. Nimmo. 1892. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. F New Edition Collectible. H 3/4 Leather. Very Good+. Later 3/4 brown calf over patterned boards, spines with raised bands and gilt tooling, top edges gilt, patterned endpapers (very very slight traces of wear). The 32 hand-colored plates are charming. 2 volumes, complete as issued. Bindings are crisp and attractive.

John C Nimmo, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1889 -John Nimmo in Four volume set extremely scarce on green half bound calf leather and marbled boards with raised bars to spine cover with gilt lettering - a limited edition of only 870 published printed for england and america with 25 illustrations in duplicate one on plain paper proofs before letters and the other on whatman paper with titles and coloured by hand each copy numbered this being 295 with portraits four woodcuts and twenty etched and aquatint illustrations from four contemporary sources by Joseph Grego in four volumes