PRESENTATION COPY
[Cover title:] Recollections.
[London].
[Sir Joseph Causton & Son], [1912].
First edition.
Quarto.
63pp, [1]. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To my dear nephew Douglas Loch, from his affectionate uncle Ernest Villiers. April 1912'.
A privately printed memoir of Ernest Villiers (1838-1921), sometime aide-de-camp to the Governor of Madras Sir William Denison (1804-1871).
Intended solely for the eyes of his children, Villiers' heartfelt memoir is frequently amusing and often self-deprecating. The bulk of his recollections are devoted to his three years in India under Denison, 'a very clever strong man' , of whom her writes affectionately. Following his return to England in 1863, Villiers was stationed in Ireland, where he served under commander-in-chief Sir Hugh Rose (1801-1885). He retired from the Army in 1874.
COPAC records copies at just three locations (BL, London Library, and Oxford); OCLC adds no further.
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 33575
Intended solely for the eyes of his children, Villiers' heartfelt memoir is frequently amusing and often self-deprecating. The bulk of his recollections are devoted to his three years in India under Denison, 'a very clever strong man' , of whom her writes affectionately. Following his return to England in 1863, Villiers was stationed in Ireland, where he served under commander-in-chief Sir Hugh Rose (1801-1885). He retired from the Army in 1874.
COPAC records copies at just three locations (BL, London Library, and Oxford); OCLC adds no further.
