Forty-one Years in India, From Sub-Altern to Commander-In-Chief Roberts (of Kandahar) Field-Marshal Lord Very Rare First Edition - January 4, 1897 Publisher: London Richard Bentley and Son 1897 Vol I – [xx], 511 Vol II – [xii], 522, [64] Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm) 30 illustrations throughout; includes full-page plates and folding maps Armorial Bookplate Language: English Binding tight secure - Hardcover Frontispaper missing in one volume. Also one page has tear. Corners and edges bumped. Almost no fading. Boards are dark blue. Engraved frontispieces, engraved title-pages, half-title and title page printed in red and black, a profusion of illustrations and folding maps throughout. 8vo, original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines; decorated in gilt on the upper covers with the gilt center bordered in attractive blindstamping, with Bently’s decorated endpapers, edges untrimmed. xvii, 511 including appendix; xii, 522 including appendices, 58 ads, index. A fine set, fresh and clean inside and out, the bindings bright with no fading of either the gilt or cloth, very minor evidence of age at the tips. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. A classic work of India under British rule. A rare early account of the life and military career of Frederick Roberts in India. Roberts was a British soldier who became an important figure in the Indian Rebellion as the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. This fine, two-volume set features 30 illustrated portraits, maps, and battle scenes from the Anglo-Afghan Wars. Even though Roberts served the British army, he loved India and the people therein. His love of India is evident in this work as he wrote “I have known this wonderful land of my adoption and its interesting peoples would be useful to my countrymen.” A snapshot of the British Empire in all her grandeur, Roberts profiles the great men and battles that shaped the years of the British-Indian colonization. While Roberts was a true soldier of the empire, he also sincerely loved India. His book is dedicated "To the country to which I am so proud of belonging , to the army to which I am so deeply indebted, and to my wife without whose loving help my ‘Forty-One Years in India’ could not be the happy retrospect it is". See all photos, as they are part of the description. Ask for more pictures.