The Rev. W. H. Fitchett ["Vedette"] — Deeds That Won the Empire

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1898. First edition. Leather. A smart, illustrated reflection on contemporary military history, bound in full blue calf. A smart copy of this military history, bound in full blue calf. Decorated with gilt detail to board edges. marbled text block edges and endpapers, in addition to gilt tooling to and a morocco label to the spine. Featuring a monochrome frontispiece, fifteen additional monochrome plates, and monochrome vignette illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. Australian journalist William Henry Fitchett was also a minister, a newspaper editor, and a teacher, and wrote several similar titles to this, which was one of his earliest publications. Bound in full blue calf. Externally, smart. mild fading to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities. The odd minor mark to boards. Slight fading to spine. The odd minor mark to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Ink prize giving inscription to front blank. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .