Personal account of life during the Indian Mutiny, an imporant family copy

Sherer, J. W., C.S.I.: Daily Life during the Indian Mutiny. Personal Experiences of 1857. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd. [London] 1898 1st edition 8vo,

Potrait frontispiece, viii, [i contents list], 196, [i]. Original red cloth gilt, a very good sound copy with just some fading to the spine, internally very clean for its age. The front pastedown has an inscription by one of John Walter Sherer’s cousins J. F. Sherer ….Rec’d June 6th 1898. The book gives an interesting account of Havelock’s march, etc by a well connected Company servant, firstly at Fatipore and later at Cawnpore. This work was firsts published as a series of chapters in F. C. Maude: Memories of the Mutiny 1894 2 vols and this is the publisher’s 1st edition in single volume form. One of our illustrations shows the index entry for Sherer in Kaye & Malleson and above it will be seen two entries for relatives of his who were serving in the Bengal Army at the same time. Ladendorf 377.  may19/1

Major General Joseph Ford Sherer [1829-1912] had a distinguished career in the Indian Mutiny and was the son and son-in-law of generals. He is most famously remembered for having introduced polo into the Indian Army and is known as the Father of Polo. A portrait of him appears elsewhere on the website and can found by entering Sherer  in the search box to the top left of the home page.