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6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces (one in colour), very numerous plates (a number in colour) and many maps (several folding), preliminaries and half-titles lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper boards with regimental crest blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean set. With folding maps in pocket at end of Vol. II and errata slip facing title of Vol. V. The set comprises Vol. I: 'The Royal Americans' (1913); Vol. II: The Green Jacket (1923); Vol. III: The 60th. The K.R.R.C. (1926); Vol. IV: The 60th. The K.R.R.C. (1929); Vol. V: The Great War (1932); Vol. VI: Appendix dealing with Uniform, Armament and Equipment (S.M. Milne and Major-General Astley Terry, 1913). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE. [Two later volumes, complete in themselves, cover the post-WWI, WWII and subsequent periods]. Sutcliffe, p.334; White p.110