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GRONOW (Captain Rees Howell). The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs, and society 1810-1860. London, J. C. Nimmo, 1900. 2 vol. in-8, XXVIII, 353 pp. + XIV, 340 pp. in publisher's blue percaline boards, decorated on the first boards with the Gronow arms in gold, silver and red, gilt head. Frontispiece portrait and 32 black illustrations by Joseph GRECO. An officer in the Welsh Grenadier Guards and a celebrated dandy, Rees Howell GRONOW (1794-1865) frequented London and Parisian high society. He published several volumes of memoirs and souvenirs. "When he relates his personal experiences, as in his account of the state of Paris in 1815, the condition of society in London in his own time, and the doings of the court of Napoleon III, his testimony is to be relied on [...] (Dictionary of National Biography).

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GRONOW (Captain Rees Howell). The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs, and society 1810-1860. London, J. C. Nimmo, 1900. 2 vol. in-8, XXVIII, 353 pp. + XIV, 340 pp. in publisher's blue percaline boards, decorated on the first boards with the Gronow arms in gold, silver and red, gilt head. Frontispiece portrait and 32 black illustrations by Joseph GRECO. An officer in the Welsh Grenadier Guards and a celebrated dandy, Rees Howell GRONOW (1794-1865) frequented London and Parisian high society. He published several volumes of memoirs and souvenirs. "When he relates his personal experiences, as in his account of the state of Paris in 1815, the condition of society in London in his own time, and the doings of the court of Napoleon III, his testimony is to be relied on [...] (Dictionary of National Biography).

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