ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR ([Frederick Sleigh], Field-Marshal Lord)

Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in- Chief.

First edition. Two volumes. Steel engraved portrait frontispiece and five similar portraits to Volume I together with two photogravure portraits, a title page vignette and six plans and maps, three of them folding. Volume II with photogravure frontispiece - the Attack on Peiwar Kotal - and a similar portrait, title page vignette, three steel engraved and six half-tone plates, three folding maps and a folding panorama. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt, some spotting to prelims and old ownership inscriptions, a very good set. xx, 512; xiii, 522pp. errata leaf 64pp. publisher’s catalogue. London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1897.

£850.00

A runaway bestseller, Roberts’ memoirs ran to eight editions in the first month of publication.

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”; Jain 974; Riddick 401.

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