A scarce 1883 biography of Sir Frederick Roberts, V.C.

Low,. Charles Rathbone: Major General Sir Frederick S. Roberts, , Bart., V. C., G.C.B., C.I.E., R.A. A Memoir. W. H. Allen & Co. [London] 1883 1st edition 8vo.

Frontispiece [tipped in real photograph portrait], xii, 405pp, 44pp publisher’s catalogue an further 4pp unpaginated. Original red cloth gilt in very clean condition with the spine a little faded. Aemorial bbokplate of Farquharson of Invercauld to front pastedown. Much of the book deals with Roberts’s careeer in the Mutiny and Second Afghan War. jun4/2