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GOWING,Timothy.
A Soldier's Experience, or a Voice from the Ranks:
Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of The Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; The Indian Mutiny, and some of its Atrocitiesl the Afghan Campaigns of 1863. Also Sketches of the Lives and Deaths of Sir H. Havelock, K.C.B., and Captain Hedley Vicars. Together with some Things not generally known. By one of the Royal Fusiliers.
Publisher: printed for the Author by Thos. Forman and Sons, 1889
Stock code: 71865
Price: £50 Currency Conversion
First published Colchester, 1870, this one of the many revised editions issued down to 1906 which constituted Gowing's only means of support other than his army pension. In his preface he claims to have made a "rapid sale of 12,000 copies of the firsts editions." He died in 1908. "Gowing was a sergeant-major in the Royal Fusiliers, and served through the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny campaigns … the book is useful in giving a non-commissioned officer's view on the struggle, and providing considerable statistical detail of the units engaged, casualties, wounded and killed etc." (Taylor).
Octavo. Original brown pictorial cloth, title gilt to the spine, large gilt fusilier block to the upper board, decoration in black to spine and upper board, all egdes gilt,black surface-paper endpapers. Portrait frontispiece and 16 other plates, one of them folding, full-page plan. Slightly rubbed at the extremities, spine relined, light toning, a very good copy.
