Preface signed: J.C. and Signature of the elder Samuel Jeake and price he had paid for the book on title page. Autograph of Henry M. Dexter on 2nd free front endpaper.
Subject (Name):
Dexter, Henry Martyn,--1821-1890--Autograph and Jeake, Samuel,--1623-1690--Autograph
Anonymous MS. and Consists of a detailed, eyewitness account of the eight years of the Marlborough campaign [John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722)], written by an unidentified officer of the Regiment of Guards; descriptions are vivid and quite detailed, with tables and lists of prisoners taken, colors taken and surrendered, etc. Military History
Description:
Bookplace of Field Marshall Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), who wrote an unfinished Life of Marlborough, of which two volumes were published in 1894.