The Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

First published in 1862, these memoirs of Rees Howell Gronow collect anecdotes of the camp, court, and clubs from about 1810 to mid-century. Gronow, a Grenadier Guards officer, recalls the Peninsular War and Waterloo, then the dandies, gambling houses, and drawing rooms of Regency and early Victorian London, with later scenes in Paris. Recurring figures include Wellington, Beau Brummell, and other soldiers and men of fashion. The pieces are short, gossipy, and independent, not a continuous campaign history. The book is a first-person miscellany of military and social memory, not a novel.

Bound in black buckram with a design in gold. Map endleaves. Dark red slipcase.