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ROBERTS, Field-Marshal Lord.
Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in- Chief.
Eighth edition. Ladendorf 364; "Most of Volume I is concerned with the Mutiny."; Taylor 669; "it is noteworthy that Roberts was a Sepoy General, that is he was from the old Indian Army of the East India Company, not one of the Queen's officers. The result... is that he shows love and respect for India and things Indian."; Riddick 401. A runaway best-seller, Roberts' memoirs ran to eight editions/impressions in the first month of publication and to this twenty-four within a year.
2 volumes, octavo (220 × 140 mm). Contemporary red half morocco for Mudie's, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Vol. I with steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 other portraits, steel-engraved and photogravure, 6 maps and plans, 3 of them folding, vol. II with frontispiece and 10 other plates and portraits, 3 folding maps and a folding panorama. Ownership signature to each front blank. Spot to margin of frontispiece in volume I, minor dampstain to top corner of first 60 leaves in volume II. An excellent set.
