GURWOOD, John (editor). The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns… London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1844-1847. 4 vols. (only, of 8). 8vo (232 x 143mm.) Half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece. (Spotting to all preliminaries and rear leaves, marginal damp-stain to frontispiece.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked, spotting to pastedowns, insect-damage to extremities, slightly dust-soiled). Provenance: Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21 (bookplates to front pastedowns). – And a further seven volumes (including John Gurwood’s ‘Selections From the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington’, 1841, 8vo, and Roger North’s ‘The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guildford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, under Charles II’, 3 vols., 1826, 8vo, and Patrick F. Tytler’s ‘England Under the Reigns of Edward VI. And Mary, with the Contemporary History of Europe’, 2 vols., 1839, 8vo) (11).