1st book edition (previously published weekly parts in Lovell's Westminster Series). 108pp. plus contemporary adverts front and rear. In decorated, red cloth-covered boards (faded at edges, a little rubbed and rounded at corners, soiled around a faded spine). Front free endpaper absent, a little page toning. A late Victorian novel concerning British soldiers and the British military. John Strange Winter was the pseudonym of the 19th century English writer, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard. Ruskin noted Winter as the 'author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier' (Wikipedia). Winter's other works under the John Strange Winter penname include Cavalry Life, Army Society, Beautiful Jim, Mrs Bob, Buttons, Confessions of a Publisher, He Went for a Soldier etc. 12mo.
