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ELSMIE, George Robert.
Field-Marshall Sir Donald Stewart.
First edition. An uncommon book. The authorised biography of Field Marshall Sir Donald Stewart. He was actively involved in the Indian Mutiny of 1857, which effectively ended the East India Company's rule in India. Stewart commanded the Kandahar field forces in the second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878. He was Commander-in-Chief of India for 5 years, and a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India until his death in 1900. Elsmie, a long time civil servant in the Punjab, was considered competent, modest and a good-humoured author, renowned for his independence of opinion. Bookplate of Henry Crossley Irwin, Mount Irwin, on front paste down. Irwin was in the Indian civil service, and wrote a study of Oudh.
Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and a coat of arms in gilt block to the upper board, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece frontispiece and 27 half-toneplates, 5 maps of which 2 are folding. Slightly rubbed, head and tail of spine crumpled, hinges just starting, endpapers foxed, some foxing to the text, but overall a very good copy.
