The life and correspondence of General James Wolfe (1727-1759), covering his boyhood in Kent, early military career as a junior officer in Flanders and Holland, and at Culloden and Falkirk against the Jacobite forces, life in Glasgow and postings elsewhere in Scotland in the late 1740s and 1750s, and war against the French forces in North America in the lates 1750s culminating in the siege and assault on the French-Canadian city of Quebec in 1759.

Dark blue original cloth (see image for mottling to bottom left edge and back), bright gilt lettering and gilt crest on front cover. pp. xiv, 522. 32 full page illusts, 6 battle plans. 1910-1911 Book Club register tipped in on prelim. #0419 SCARCE