Historical record of the Seventy-Second Regiment or The Duke of Albany's own Highlanders; containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1778 and of its subsequent services to 1848 /
Great Britain.Army.Seaforth Highlanders.Battalion, 1st.
Cannon, Richard,1779-1865.
Egerton, Granville(Granville George Algernon),1859-1951,former owner.StEdNL
Gascoyne, Charles,General,donor.StEdNL
London,
1848.
Part of "Historical records of the British Army".
With manuscript additions and with insertions by Granville Egerton.
Manuscript inscriptions on the recto of the front free endpaper "G. G. A. Egerton [?] 72nd Highlanders from Genl C. Gascoyne Col. 72nd Highlanders August 1879" and below that "I was [?] 2nd Lt. in the 72nd [?] [?] 13th August 1879, and general Gascoyne gave me this book when, he was then full Colonel of the Regt, he died shortly after. GE." Ownership sticker on the front pastedown "Major-General Granville Egerton, 7, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh". Manuscript inscription in Egerton's hand on the front pastedown "I wish this book to go with others in the S.H.W. Memorial Library. 99". Clippings of a poem and a clipping titled "Authors of Poems Wanted" pasted on the front pastedown. Manuscript notes on the margins throughout.