Maurice, Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick (intro. by) THE HISTORY OF THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE 1859-1919 , Constable, London, 1921,

1st edn., xx, 515pp, half tone photo frontis, 5 half tone plates (one of Regimental Plate with tissue guard printed with legend), 4 folding maps/plans, 14 in text maps/plans; the mapcase wallet contains: 1. Movements of 1st Battalion 1914-19; 2. Movements of 2nd Battalion 1917-19; 3. France sheet 51B, Arras; 4. Albert (combined sheet) and the Somme, dark green cloth lettered and ruled in silver at spine, decorated in silver upper board, fore and lower edges uncut, unusually complete with with mapcase wallet in matching binding containing 4 (of 5) maps, the comprehensive history of the London Rifle Brigade, with a detailed account of the 1st Battalion from August 1914, on the Western front from November 1914 to May 1919; the 2nd Battalion in UK from September 1914, in France from January 1917 until disbandment in January 1918; the 3rd Battalion from November 1914 until disbandment in April 1919; with Appendices incl.: 1. details of the gas attack at Loos, September 1915; 2. Detailed orders, planning, reports, charts and tables of reserves, casualties and artillery bombardment and folding plan for the July 1916 attack on Gommecourt; press reports of the March 1918 assault on Arras, lists of appointments, regimental plate, enrolment statristics, nominal roll of officers, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, endpapers partially browned, sl. cracks to front endpapers at hinge, no dustwrapper, mapcase wallet: rubbed at extrems., lacks one map (Sheet 28), repairs to pastedown at inner spine, very good, (Book ref. 38132)  £42.00

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