THE BATTLE OF DORKING: REMINISCENCES OF A VOLUNTEER. FROM BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE MAY 1871

by Sir George Tomkyns Chesney

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871. Small octavo, pp. 1-3 4-64 1 2-8: ads, original pictorial purple wrappers. First edition, first printing, first issue. The presumed first issue, with no copyright notice on the title page. The most influential future war story. Before Chesney there had been little effective method in the few tales of the war-to-come that had appeared. After Chesney there were very

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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