His Majesty's Warrants: containing the Appointment of a Supreme Board of Commissioners, for the Affairs of the Royal Military College; and Statutes for the Government and Conduct of the First Department of that Institution.

Tall 8vo. Ex-lib. copy with ink-stamps to the end-papers and an ink inscription to the title-page, but on the whole a very good copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, rebacked, leather label to the upper board. 64pp. 4 double-page form blanks.

Bookplate of Sir Harry Verney to the front pastedown. Verney was a student at Sandhurst under his original name of Calvert from 1818-1819. On the death of his cousin, Mrs. Verney of Claydon House, he assumed that surname by Royal License and settled down to the duties of a country squire on his newly acquired estates. Before he could fully begin to enjoy his new station in life he was summoned to join his father's friend Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, newly created Governor-General of India, as military secretary. However, on the voyage out Verney was taken ill and left behind at Rio de Janeiro, where, once recovered, he began a series of bizarre and romantic adventures in South America. This copy has what appear to be earlier ownership inscriptions of a kinswoman of Verney's, Maria Calvert, to the front pastedown and verso of the front free endpaper.

Stock Code: 70728