Mutiny Memoirs, Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt in 1857

Author(s):

MacKenzie, A R D

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Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

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Edition:

2nd Edition

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Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Pioneer Press

Publication Year:

1892

Publication Place:

Allahabad, IN

ISBN:

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Book ID:

017600

Catalogue(s):

History – British

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Second edition. [vi], 214pp, iv, ii, with monochrome plate frontispiece and one further monochrome plate illustration. Half bound in red leather over red cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles on front and spine. Bevelled edges. Coloured endpapers. Small 8vo. Boards heavily rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, spine sunned, with some leather loss at head of spine. Gift inscription on front paste down, indicating the book was gifted to Dora Warbrough by her uncle, W A Sanford. Sanford’s younger brother, Captain Sanford, was killed in Lucknow in 1858, during the Indian Mutiny. Endpapers a little marked and stained; hint of toning to first and last few leaves. Gutter cracked ahead of dedication page, but volume remains tight. Colonel A R D MacKenzie’s eyewitness account of the violent and bloody uprising against the Raj rule of the British/ British East India Company in India in 1857, a young Subaltern officer in the Native Cavalry who was engaged in the suppression of the uprising. Hard to find.

Keywords:

India, Raj, British Empire, Sepoy Uprising, Indian Mutiny, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Indian Revolt, British East India Company, Captain Sanford, Lucknow