Rowlandson – Roberts, David. – The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an account of the Campaign on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall.

‘Humorous narrative of the experiences of an officer in the Peninsula War, illustrated by the pre-eminent cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson’. – “To the Subalterns of the British Army. Gentlemen, I shall , I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when in dedicating this humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt the only means in my powers of shewing how much I honour and admire them. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With the greatest respect, Your most obedient Servant, The Author.” (Dedication). – With Exlibris Almeric Hugh Paget 1st Baron Queenborough – Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough, GBE (14 March 1861 – 22 September 1949) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was a founder of the Military Massage Service and the Cambridgeshire Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and treasurer of the League of Nations Union. And Exlibris of C. Robert Bignold. – Ocassionally some minor stains, otherwise a fine copy of this curious work on the Napoleon wars in Spain.