Buy this book on-line Kaye, John William : Lives of Indian Officers Illustrative of the Civil and Military Service of India(London, Strahan & Co. and Daldy, Isbister, & Co., 1873, 1875 and 1869)
3 uniform volumes, providing biographies of the following notables: Lord Cornwallis, Sir John Malcolm, Monstuart Elphinstone (Vol. 1), Henry Martyn, Sir Charles Metcalfe, Sir Alex. Burnes, Captain Conolly, Major Pottinger (Vol. 2), Major D'arcy Todd, Sir Henry Lawrence, General Neill, General John Nicholson (Vol. 3). Crown 8vo; original blue cloth blocked in black and gilt; pp. xiv + 458, (ii) + 494, (ii) + 400. Cloth very worn in each case, and backstrip of 3rd volume nearly detached; pastedowns have previous owner's bookplate, and there are subsequent earlier ownership inscriptions; all hinges somewhat tender; sporadic, generally light, foxing. Fair condition. "Two or three years ago, I was invited by the editor and by the proprietor of Good Words to write a series of biographical papers illustrative of the careers of some of our most distinguished 'Indian Heroes.' . . . Of the lives, which I selected for illustration, the greater number had never been written before, and of those which had been written before, I had unpublished records which enabled me to impart some little freshness to my memoirs. . . . I may say, indeed, that the work has been almost entirely re-written, the chapters in the periodical having been little more than sketches of the more finished portraits which are now produced after fifteen additional months of conscientious research. . . . The men who went out to India in those old days of the East India Company did not regard themselves merely as strangers and sojourners in the land. They looked to India as a Home, and to Indian service as a Career . . . It is in no small measure because I wish that others should go forth from our English homes on the same mission, and with the same aspirations, that I have written these memoirs, and if I have induced even a few, contemplating these heroic examples, to endeavor to do likewise, I shall not have written in vain." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Kaye, John William : Lives of Indian Officers Illustrative of the Civil and Military Service of India. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, livres rares, first editions, collectables and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |