Sketches on Service During The Indian Frontier Campaigns of 1897
Book Description
1st Edition, 160 pages. Tall 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and thirteen other portraits, fifty-seven full-page illustrations. A very good copy in the original buff pictorial cloth, a.e.g., a little rubbed, lightly soiled with wear to the top head of spines. Bevilled edges and gilt edged paper. Diary-like text with each illustration describes Hobday's impressions and involvement. The author was D.A.A.G. with the 1st Brigade Malakand Field Force.
Dealer Notes
In 1897, the North-West Frontier of India erupted in warfare, the tribes along the border attacking British garrisons and Indian villages. The reaction to this uprising was a series of incursions by the British into tribal territory in 1897 and 1898.
Author
Hobday, E A P Major R A
Date
1898
Binding
Cloth
Publisher
James Bowden, 1898
Illustrator
N/A
Condition
Very Good
Pages
160
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