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First Edition Book

Lot No. 85: Maude, F C Sherer, John Walter

Memories of the Mutiny

  • Medium: Printed book
  • Year: 1894
  • Size: 7.8 x 5.5 inches
  • Place: London

Winning Bid : ₹35,640

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30,000 - 50,000


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360-600

Ends at Mar 14, 2024 09:48 PM IST

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Maude, F C Sherer, John Walter

Memories of the Mutiny

First edition
Year: 1894
Size: 20 x 14 cm (7.8 x 5.5 inches)
Published By: Remington and Company, 2 vols., Octavo. Half-tone portrait frontispieces (with tissue guards), 27 half-tone plates (from contemporary illustrations and photographs), folding map of Lucknow and "Facsimile of the Nana's Proclamation. Later red half leather over red cloth binding.

Handsomely produced and rapidly reprinted - going through three editions in the year of publication - this is an important eye-witness account of the Mutiny.

After attending Blackheath proprietary school, an army crammer, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1844-7), Maude (1828-1900) was commissioned second lieutenant, Royal Artillery, in October 1847 (lieutenant, June 1848), and served at Woolwich and in Ireland. In 1854, on sick leave, he travelled for ten months and visited India. Promoted second captain in December 1854, in 1855 he was sent in command of his battery to Trincomalee, Ceylon. In June 1857 came the news of the Indian mutiny, and Maude's battery sailed to Calcutta .

Colonel Maude commanded General Havelock's artillery support during his approach and recapture of Cawnpore and in the first Relief of Lucknow. Maude's tale rambles along providing interesting points about the technical use of artillery, battles fought along the way, and miscellaneous detail about uniform. Once Cawnpore is retaken Maude inserted the memoirs of John W. Shere, a civilan administrator at Futtehpore. Sherer's recollections trace his own highly complicated, hair-raising journey to Cawnpore and freedom. Resuming his narrative, Maude describes his fight into the Residency at Lucknow with Havelock's force and later again with Campbell's. In both cases his memoirs are critical of Havelock's and Campbell's generalship. Later as Campbell's campaign waned in Oudh, so did Maude's memoirs into a blurred, unfocused ending.

The text is accompanied by valuable photographs illustrating key scenes in Cawnpore and Lucknow" (Riddick). One of the appendices gives a list of officers surviving as of November 1893 and a note at the end explains that A Trust has been formed, under which Ten Per Cent. of the Authors profits arising from the sale of this Work will be equally divided between any of the above-named Artillerymen who are proved to be living on the 31st December, 1894.

Bruce 4313 (listing the third edition); Cockle, India, p. 33; Riddick, Glimpses of India, 235; Sorsky 732.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
Nickname Amount(Rs) Type Date & Time(IST)
1 anon0200 29700.00 Regular 11-03-2024 01:03:17 PM IST
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