8vo., Third Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece, fine coloured plate of banners, full-page lithographed map coloured by hand, and 2 large folding maps, some occasional and neat underlining in pencil; handsomely bound in green half calf BY OXFORD, green cloth boards, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Bound with the half-title. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. With the fine engraved armorial bookplate of Stanley Leonard Barry of Hampton Gay Manor, Oxfordshire on front paste-down and neat pencil annotation (possibly in his hand) on blank preliminary. Colonel Stanley Leonard Barry (1873-1943) was the son of Sir Francis Tress Barry, 1st Baronet, and Sarah Douglas Herron. After Harrow he began a distinguished career in the army, serving with 10th Royal Hussars in the Boer War between 1899 and 1902, gianing a Mention in Despatches), the Queen’s Medal with six clasps, the King’s Medal with two clasps and the D.S.O. He went on to serve in France during the Great War as ADC to Commander in Chief, British Expeditionary Force, and in attendance on HRH the Prince of Wales. He was made an M.V.O. and a C.M.G. in 1915 and gained his C.B.E. Military in 1919. Colonel Barry’s later appointments and civil posts included membership of His Majesty’s Bodyguard and The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Lord of Manor of Long Crendon, Bucks, and Hampton Gay, Oxon. A SPLENDID COPY WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE AND VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
