History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. McCANCE (Captain S.).

Vol. I. From 1652 to 1860. Vol. II. From 1861 to 1922.

Vol. I with five coloured plates, 31 illustrations and 20 folding maps. Vol. II with four coloured plates, 58 illustrations and 20 folding maps and sketches.

First Edition. Two volumes. 4to. [252 x 183 x 90 mm]. [9]ff, 254pp; [3]ff, viii, [ii], 305 pp. Bound in the original half blue goatskin, blue cloth sides with a gilt block of the arms of the Royal Munster Fusiliers on the front, the spines divided into six panels by raised bands and gilt fillets and pallets, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with the Fusiliers crest, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt, silk markers. (Slightly rubbed).
For Private Circulation. Printed by Gale & Polden Ltd, Wellington Works, Aldershot, 1927.

At the front of both volumes there is a leaf announcing that this is the "Edition de Luxe" of which only 114 copies have been printed and this is copy no.71. It is followed by two leaves listing the recipient of each copy, this being issued to Captain H. J. Leland D.S.O. Not to be confused with Captain Leland in Star Trek, Herbert John Collett Leland saw action on the Western Front in 1916-17 first with the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment and then the 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment. His private papers are in the Imperial War Museum.

Light foxing throughout but in all other respects a very good copy.

Stock no. ebc7632