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Standing Orders for the First Regiment of Life Guards.
Verlag: London: Printed by Samuel McDowall for Vacher & Davies, 1814, 1814
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: ABA ILAB PBFA
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First edition of these regulations for a regiment that established its reputation during the Napoleonic wars. A copy with a fine provenance, having the 1820 ownership inscription of the 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, who served with the regiment, son of the Marquess of Anglesey who led Wellington's cavalry at Waterloo when these SOs were in force. Scarce, just the fourth copy located, Library Hub notes National Army Museum and National Library of Scotland, WorldCat adds Brown. The Life Guards were formed in 1788 by the union of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. Two squadrons from the regiment fought in the Peninsular War during 1812-14., and in 1815 led the Household Brigade's charge at Waterloo against their French heavy cavalry equivalents. Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, (1797-1869) was educated at Westminster School, "where. he gained a reputation as an excellent athlete, cricketer, horseman and 'crack shot', and lost a few front teeth in a holiday riding accident" (History of Parliament online). He was commissioned a cornet and lieutenant in the 7th Dragoons in 1814, made captain in 1817, transferring to the First Life Guards in 1820, major 1823. He tended to his father at Brussels in 1815 during his recuperation from the amputation of his leg at Waterloo. Returned for Anglesey in 1820, a seat he held until 1832, he remained a serving soldier. It was noted that "he 'attended very seldom and voted with ministers' in his first Parliament". Octavo (204 x 123 mm). Handsome contemporary deep red straight-grain morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered longitudinally in the second compartment, drawer handle and floral tools to the others, concentric panels in gilt and blind to the boards, foliate edge-roll, palmette roll to the turn-ins, light greenish-blue endpapers, all edges gilt. Sample forms at the rear, three of them folding and double-sided. Lightly rubbed, slightly chafed on the spine edges, corners bumped, clean tear to one of the folding tables, pale toning to contents; a few neat annotations to the text, presumably by Uxbridge; overall very good.
