16. Edwards ( Sir Fleetwood Isham, 1842-1910 ) An album of military architecture, exercises drawn at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in geometry and perspective, sections, elevations and plans of various fortification and means of attack, 8 pen and ink drawings with various coloured or monochrome washes, 5 each c.300 x 465mm., 3 folding out to 465 x 670mm., all signed and dated, original cloth boards, worn, upper board gilt-lettered Fortification Plates, R.M.A., F. Edwards, detached, folio, 1861-62.
est. £150 – £250
Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards (1842-1910) left Harrow School for Sandhurst in 1861. He received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1863. In the 1870s he was inspector of works at Woolwich Arsenal, then aide-de-camp to General Sir John Lintorn Simmons, inspector-general of fortifications. Following his contributions to the Berlin Congress, in 1878, he was appointed assistant privy purse and assistant private secretary to Queen Victoria. He later became head of the queen’s personal household, a privy councillor, and a close personal advisor. He was an executor of her will in 1901.