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DREWE, Edward. Dedicated to the British Army. Military Sketches. Exeter: B. Thorn & Son, sold by J. Debrett of London, 1784.
8° (183 x 115mm). Collation: [ ]2; A-C4 c2; A-P4 Q2. Pagination: [4pp.]; i-xxv, [3p]; 1-124. Contemporary tree calf gilt by Christian Kalthoeber. Provenance: AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SISTER (signed inscription on front blank, 2pp. manuscript note at rear).
A FINE COPY. The work includes an 8pp. poem An Elegiac Epistle Addressed to a Friend, On my leaving Boston in 1775, for the Cure of my Wounds, sustained at Bunker's Hill. The note at the rear identifies the friend as John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806), the first governor of Upper Canada, and records the appearance of a pirated edition of part of the present work. The presentation inscription reads "I wish my Dr. Sister to keep this Book in remembrance of me I beg that She will not permit any one to Peruse it out of her own House. E Drewe" Cf. Sabin 20937 (variant pagination).
8° (183 x 115mm). Collation: [ ]2; A-C4 c2; A-P4 Q2. Pagination: [4pp.]; i-xxv, [3p]; 1-124. Contemporary tree calf gilt by Christian Kalthoeber. Provenance: AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SISTER (signed inscription on front blank, 2pp. manuscript note at rear).
A FINE COPY. The work includes an 8pp. poem An Elegiac Epistle Addressed to a Friend, On my leaving Boston in 1775, for the Cure of my Wounds, sustained at Bunker's Hill. The note at the rear identifies the friend as John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806), the first governor of Upper Canada, and records the appearance of a pirated edition of part of the present work. The presentation inscription reads "I wish my Dr. Sister to keep this Book in remembrance of me I beg that She will not permit any one to Peruse it out of her own House. E Drewe" Cf. Sabin 20937 (variant pagination).