Forty-one years in India from subaltern to commander-in-chief

by Frederick Roberts, Field Marshall Lord Roberts of Kandahar

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Richard Bentley and Sons, 1897. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 511, 1 ; title pages printed in red and black, frontispiece portrait, vignette title page, 26 views, plans and portraits 6 folding , and a folding map; contemporary half red calf over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, black morocco labels in 2; joints tender, but still an attractive set. Prize bookplate on the front free endpaper of volume I. Yakushi R-254.

• Binding: Leather

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