Search Results: Crimean War from Victor Sutcliffe

London: Ward Lock, (c.1865). viii and 383 pages. Tailpieces and other woodcut text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth embossed in black and gold. Good example of a Victorian decorative binding. An early edition of this book ending with an account of the ongoing Maori Wars of the 1860s.

London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. x and 336 pages. 5 coloured lithographs (2 of uniformed figures illustrating ways of riding, 3 of a proposed saddle), 2 plans, woodcut. A near fine copy in contemporary tree calf, the original gilt spine has been professionally relaid on a new leather back (see photo). Nolan, riding master of the 15th Hussars, later carried Raglan's orders at Balaclava. He believed that cavalry led with 'speed and determination' could overcome all obstacles.

London: Harrison, 1857. xv and 189 pages including folding letterpress tables. Later black cloth. Colonel Tulloch and Sir John McNeill were sent out to the Crimea in February 1855 to look into the state of the supplies of the army in the east. Their report which revealed glaring deficiencies was laid before Parliament early in 1856. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: Kegan Paul, 1897. xi and 272 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's slightly faded silk cloth; damaged spine carefully repaired and neatly relaid. Sorsky 844. (For more books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: Methuen, 1906. 2 volumes. xiv and 322 pages; vii and 299 pages. 24 illustrations and maps. Publisher's decorated red cloth, spine just beginning to fade (see photo), an excellent pair. Crimea (with the Naval Brigade), Indian Mutiny, and Africa from Ashanti to the Sudan.

London: Longman Brown et al., 1855. vii and 311 pages. Publisher's blind stamped black cloth; covers a little rubbed, occasional light foxing, a giood tight copy. Mrs Duberly accompanied her husband, who was paymaster of the 8th Hussars, to the Crimea. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: without imprint, 1891. Each section separately paginated - 472 pages altogether. Frontispiece portrait and 38 zincographs. Full red leather carefully restored and sympathetically rebacked. Extremely scarce. This copy is signed and dated November 1891, Blickling Hall, Aylsham. It was presented to the Officers Library at the Depot of the Somersetshire Light Infantry, Kerr's old regiment which he led in the Mutiny.

London: Richard Bentley, 1894. xx and 411 pages. Frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth; there are short tears to either side of the headcap. Campbell of the 46th was assistant military engineer for most of the siege.  (For more books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: privately printed, 1868. 122 pages. Original blue cloth slightly marked. Cornet F W Martin (who later changed his name to Cornwallis) was acting adjutant of the 4th Hussars and rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade which is here described in a four page letter to his mother.

Montreal: Desaulnier's Printing Co., 1893. 192 pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth with royal arms and title in gold within gold rules on the front board. Mainly Crimea. One of those books that used to be hard to find on this side of the pond but which is widely available on the net and was presumably always common in Canada where O'Malley retired. No doubt he occupied his retirement by selling his memoirs at fairs. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: John Murray, 1856. vi and 236 pages. 2 folding plans of Sebastopol. An excellent copy in the publisher's red cloth with vignette in gold on the front cover showing a theodolite and other equipment; the headcap has been professionally and barely noticeably repaired. (For more books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: George Routledge, 1855. 167 pages. Frontispiece battle scene. (bound with) The War: or, voices from the ranks. 188 pages. Frontispiece battle scene, titlepage vignette, double page plan of Balaklava. A very good copy in contemporary half calf; margins trimmed but without loss. The second book is the more interesting; it contains a number of soldiers' letters not to be found elsewhere. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: Ward and Lock, 1857 second thousand. An exceptionally good copy in the publisher's lilac wrappers printed in black; short tears are beginning to develop along the sides of the spine but they don't detract from the appearance of this remarkably early original paperback binding. Lectures delivered in Canterbury - personal recollections of the Crimea and a sketch of Montenegro and its history. In 1858 Wright was to write an outspoken pamphlet, England's Duty to England's Army, addressed to the Secretary of State in which he suggested many reforms in the terms and conditions of service.(For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: Unwin Brothers, 1894 for the author. xi and 190 pages. 17 plates, 2 plans. Specially bound in full black calf with gilt lines, outer upper hinge tender. Presented by Hume to Charlotte Harris Long and with the frontispiece signed in ink.

London: Day and Son, 1867. 2 volumes. xii and 367 pages; viii and 382 pages. Portrait. Recased in the publisher's quarter blue and red cloth with medals, clasps and other decorations elaborately stamped in gold. Bell was gazetted to the 34th in 1811 and was in the Peninsula to 1814. He went to India in 1825 with the 45th and was at Ava. In 1826 he exchanged into the 1st Foot and served in Canada and in the Crimea.

London: Kerby and Endean, 1878. xii and 212 pages. Doublepage colour plate of Pack's orders and honours, 2 folding panoramic sketches. Publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in black and titled in gold; there is slight wear to the spine and one corner is bumped. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: Dean and Sons, (1880) third edition. 5 volumes bound in 1 as published for this edition. xxvii, 128, 142, 78, 238 and 278 pages. 109 illustrations including 3 in colour. Rubbed and discoloured original cloth repaired and relaid on a new cloth back, soundly bound and with the contents very good and clean.
Portmanteau edition of the Gallant Deeds of Our Heroes comprising The Victoria Cross in the Crimea; ...in India; ...in New Zealand, Andaman Islands, Abyssinia, Ashantee, Bhootan etc; ...in Afghanistan, ...in Zululand and South Africa.

London: Hatchard, 1855. 24 pages. A fine copy professionally rebound in quarter calf and marbled boards. Lucan had defended his handling of the cavalry at Balaclava in a speech to the House of Lords on 19th March 1855. Anthony Bacon responded anonymously in a pamphlet entitled Remarks in Reply to Lieutenant General the Earl of Lucan’s Speech....By a Cavalry Officer. This more detailed defence of his conduct is Lucan's rebuttal of Bacon. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. iv and 220 pages. 3 hand coloured lithographs. Publisher's red cloth with a vignette device in gold on the front board and decorative hatching in gold on the spine. Edward Money served with Beatson's Horse aka The Osmanli Irregular Cavalry for a year from July 1855. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)