Book, Andrew R. Bonar, Life of Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, by Andrew R. Bonar, 1850_

Historical information

The life story of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1769 – 1852, a leading military and political figure of 19th-century Britain. He defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Significance

Good example of embossed book cover

Physical description

384 p. + advertisements, frontis. Gold and black embossed design on light brown cover

Inscriptions & markings

Wm. Chapple, Ballarat 1884 on fly leaf, bookseller's stamp "F. & A. Symons"

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